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Example sentences for "immure"

Lexicographically close words:
immunity; immunization; immunize; immunized; immunizing; immured; immurement; immuring; immutability; immutable
  1. Dario, that cousin, the last of the name, who in his turn would immure his wife in the black sepulchre of the Boccanera palace!

  2. I will hurl him from the proud position he now holds," replied the other, "and immure him in the Fleet.

  3. Like the Boss said: they're gonna immure the bum for his pains.

  4. They had taken Foster away to immure him, somebody said.

  5. Better therefore 'twere, methinks, You should not immure me: Don't you know without my help You can not secure me?

  6. Close you watch me, mother mine, Watch me, and immure me: Don't you know without my help You can not secure me?

  7. If she does not fall in love or marry before May, when she will be twenty-one years of age, she will immure herself in a convent, as I am pledged not to prevent her.

  8. I shall then have neither the power nor the wish to prevent you," added the wise old banker, who felt perfectly confident that at the end of the specified time his daughter would no longer pine to immure herself in a convent.

  9. He would not ratify his daughter's marriage with such a caitiff, but would use his parental power to tear her from her unlawful husband's arms, and immure her in the living tomb of an Italian convent.

  10. And beneath the walls they will immure thee!

  11. At all events, let me advise you to avoid such companions as those with whom you appear to have been allied," observed Richard, "and who are cruel enough to immure a female in a subterranean dungeon.

  12. And if I should happen to fail in obtaining the title and estates of Ravensworth," said Vernon, "this document would enable you to immure me in a debtor's prison.

  13. The Resurrection Man entered first, and advanced into the middle of a small arched cell--a stone tomb, built to immure the living!

  14. If the sovereign were now to immure a subject in defiance of the writ of habeas corpus .

  15. Roland is a prisoner, and must straightway immure himself.

  16. He appeared to think that some experience of the rigors of the convent might make me less eager to immure myself in a nunnery, which, like Pfalz Castle, is also on a restricted island.

  17. But, on the other hand, she stood ready to sacrifice everything, in order to build some new wall of interest about him, that she might immure him from his past.

  18. They say that my father is killed by cruel men--I know not for certain why or by whom--and that the Abbot of Blossholme comes to claim me as his ward and immure me in Blossholme Priory, whither I would not go.

  19. He had wished to proclaim his wardship over Cicely and to immure her in a nunnery because of her great possessions, which he needed for the cause, but he had not wished her death.

  20. Manuli, the master builder, has a dream, wherein he is recommended to immure the first woman that appears on the scene; the victim is Manuli's wife.

  21. He ordered the warders to come, and gave them orders to take the lad into the tower of the fortress, and to immure him alive in the wall.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "immure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arrest; bottle; cage; casket; check; cloister; closet; confine; constrain; coop; cork; cramp; crib; detain; encase; enclose; entomb; envelop; fence; gaol; hedge; hem; hold; immure; impound; imprison; incarcerate; inhibit; intern; jail; jug; keep; pen; pound; prison; rail; restrain; restrict; seclude; shackle; shut; straiten; wall