immuring
- present participle of immure.
Example Sentences
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Whether he’s an exemplar of patient fortitude or of contemptible cowardice, Assange, 44, has managed to frustrate the British and Swedish governments by immuring himself within the embassy, which is treated as Ecuadorean territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2015
He learned this fact by immuring himself in an air-conditioned laboratory for twelve days last winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Kate took to immuring herself in her room he felt that it was time for him to interfere.
From The Firm of Girdlestone by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
And there is something so disturbingly immuring and depersonalizing about it!
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
The Sacred College consisted at the time of twenty-seven cardinals, four of whom were absent at distant sees and unable to reach Rome in time for the immuring of the Conclave.
From The Life of Cesare Borgia by Sabatini, Rafael
