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
Manchu China en compassed all of Mongolia, Korea and Taiwan.
From Time Magazine Archive
She compassed a weighty historical tome in 1922, after which fiction-writing seemed like child's play.
From Time Magazine Archive
"However," it is said, "where all cannot be compassed, much may be accomplished; but I must not, in fairness, conceal from you that you have much to do."
From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord
