| You see why a church hemmed in like this put its burial ground out in the empty fields beyond what would become Russell Square. |
| Below stretched Carnmore, a water-filled trench hemmed in by brooding peaks and startling rock bluffs, mile upon mile of rugged isolation. |
| The long now-walled-in driveway, up and down which I used to cycle madly, looked dark and narrow and hemmed in as a gully leading into a ghetto. |
| Howley, hemmed in on the left flank, dabbed a clever grubber kick up the touchline, and set off in pursuit. |
| When he was not hemmed in by the round of official details, England afforded him that combination in bounteous measure. |
| More and more life becomes a series of traps where you are hemmed in from all sides. |
