Set
Set verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.
Wall in
Wall in verb - To close or shut in by or as if by barriers.
Both terms in one sentence
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Indeed, one set of pictures on the same wall in the shadowy hall all look out onto the same scene, as if they were simply panes in a large window.
Source: Portal Picture - She was starting to panic as the forced isolation set in... then she heard Shinji knocking a familiar beat against the wall in the cell next to hers.
Source: Go Mad from the Isolation - Kamen Rider Kiva is set both in the '80s and the present, and invokes this trope often - one notable scene has a wall in a cafe, decorated with commemorative annual plates, which suddenly multiply till they cover half the wall as the story shifts to the present.
Source: Time Passes Montage
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