Example Sentences

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Portland Fire & Rescue responded to reports of a person immured in a pond near Portland’s Heron Lakes Golf Club at around 8:17 a.m.

From Washington Times • Sep. 2, 2023

“She is a friendless orphan,” said Levy, “whose relatives have immured her in an asylum without ever producing her for the court.”

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2019

But it also sounds, marvelously, like a geographical location in which a character from a Paul Bowles novel might be immured.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 19, 2018

For these writers, institutions "immured" their pupils, treating them like prisoners.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2014

As you stand before its entrance you think of a fortress full of immured treasures.

From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Hichens, Robert (Robert Smythe)