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verb

immure

lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

In a sentence

Six example sentences with immure, each labelled with its topic.

  • The heroine is immured in a tower for eleven chapters, and the author gives her one window and no visitors.

    Literature

  • Medieval anchorites chose to be immured in a small cell beside the church, receiving food through a single narrow opening.

    History

  • The whole second act immures its cast in one snowbound cabin, and the tension comes from nobody being able to leave.

    Movies

  • The first level immures your character in a stone cell, and the only way out is to find a loose brick.

    Gaming

  • A late blizzard immured us in the mountain hut for three days, with a wood stove and one pack of cards.

    Travel

  • The Antarctic winter immures the station crew for six months, since no plane can land once the sun goes.

    Science

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