wall in

verb

walled in; walling in; walls in
Synonyms of wall innext
: 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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Riley drove the go-ahead blast over the wall in right-center field. — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026 Riggs clipped the outside wall in the closing laps and finished 19th. — Reid Spencer, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026 The pesky thing was looking around for some data on health care costs, found a wall in Australia’s Medicare database and decided simply to hop over it, easy peasy. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026 This hospital interior looks like a hotel, its curtains and walls in matching pink. — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for wall in

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“Wall in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall%20in. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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