compassed
Example Sentences
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“Wild Swans” would seem to have laid bare every cruel irony of the volatile times it compassed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
The "great tracts of land" he imagines "compassed about with heavens fair" are not necessarily those of Eden.
From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2010
She compassed a weighty historical tome in 1922, after which fiction-writing seemed like child's play.
From Time Magazine Archive
He compassed a great coup with 317 second-hand bath-tubs, became a wholesale bargain man with a Long Island City warehouse, and his slogan was known to all the city: "Fippany for Any Old Thing".
From Time Magazine Archive
The sages who have compassed sea and land, Their secret to search out, and understand,— My mind misgives me if they ever solve The scheme on which this universe is planned.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
