wall in

phrasal verb

walled in; walling in; walls in

: to surround (something) with a wall or with something that is like a wall

The school grounds are walled in.

They walled the garden in with rows of thick shrubs.

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The Trump administration built 263 miles of wall in the two states between 2017 and 2021, bringing their combined total to 391 miles. —

Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024 Two adjoining city walls in the historic old town, one of which dates to the French Mandate, and the other built in the Ottoman era, suffered severe damage from Israeli air strikes. —

Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 19 Nov. 2024 Grayson Rodriguez is second on that list with six, while Albert Suárez was perhaps the biggest beneficiary of the wall in 2024 with four homers saved. —

Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024 However, Trump broke through the blue wall in 2016 by narrowly defeating Hillary Clinton by roughly 10,000 votes in Michigan. —

Ashley Schwartz-Lavares, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for wall in