wall up
phrasal verb
walled up; walling up; walls up
1
: to close off (an opening) by filling it with stone, brick, etc.
They walled up the doorway of the abandoned house.
2
: to keep (someone) as a prisoner in an enclosed space
He was walled up in the tower.
Examples of wall up in a Sentence
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This belief puts walls up that keep other people further away from you, and with no good reason.
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Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2024
The fact that Pascal still had a wall up worried Joan.
—Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Look east from the cemetery, to an adjacent field where cattle graze, birds sing and a brook babbles: This will become a 116-acre data center housing 2.2 million square feet of massive structures with concrete walls up to 70 feet high.
—Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
Meanwhile, Wendy continues to keep the wall up with her relationship with Nneka, who asks for a one-on-one in addition to her invite to her packing/slumber party.
—Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
North Port Fire Rescue, with the help of their Technical Rescue Team, used ropes and a Stokes basket to haul the woman up the 12-foot wall up to ground level, rescue officials said.
—Gina Martinez, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2023
During World War II, the Nazis used the mines to wall up 3,000 Bakhmut Jews alive.
—Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
Without fouling, just walling up vertically, getting my hands on balls and stuff of that nature.
—Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
The pulsing rhythm vibrates through the floor and walls up through your body and fingertips.
—Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
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Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2024
The fact that Pascal still had a wall up worried Joan.
—Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Look east from the cemetery, to an adjacent field where cattle graze, birds sing and a brook babbles: This will become a 116-acre data center housing 2.2 million square feet of massive structures with concrete walls up to 70 feet high.
—Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
Meanwhile, Wendy continues to keep the wall up with her relationship with Nneka, who asks for a one-on-one in addition to her invite to her packing/slumber party.
—Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
North Port Fire Rescue, with the help of their Technical Rescue Team, used ropes and a Stokes basket to haul the woman up the 12-foot wall up to ground level, rescue officials said.
—Gina Martinez, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2023
During World War II, the Nazis used the mines to wall up 3,000 Bakhmut Jews alive.
—Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
Without fouling, just walling up vertically, getting my hands on balls and stuff of that nature.
—Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
The pulsing rhythm vibrates through the floor and walls up through your body and fingertips.
—Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
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“Wall up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall%20up. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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