enveloping

Example Sentences

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Many fund managers have argued that the investor angst enveloping private credit is overblown and that the bulk of the loans they make are sound.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

AFP journalists who traveled to the landfill site by boat saw billows of thick, gray smoke completely enveloping houses on Salambao -- one of the islands from which people were evacuated.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Their voices soared, cracked with grief, enveloping those gathered in a wave of pure emotion.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

It’s a decision that was partly spiritual: when the world feels unmoored, it seemed perhaps worth remembering that our predecessors relied on the seasons as enveloping promises of change.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2025

Håkon struggled against the creature, but it held him in place, so close that it was on the verge of enveloping Håkon in the cloud swirling around it.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack