close around

If Bo had hoped to make Wang Lijung the fall guy as the net began to close around him, that move spectacularly backfired.

A little curly strand on her forehead played charmingly in the wind which blew her skirts close around her in fine modelling.

Let now the earth gently close around you even as a mother gently wraps her infant child in soft robes.

If they study me, I study them—not like a real scientist—but by just having them close around.

When he snubbed carefully the noose drew close around the stake, and the latter held.

More than half a mile was passed, before the rill rippled close around the base of an extensive and dry rock.