embraces

Example Sentences

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As Southern California embraces the swell of another packed spring season of festivals and outdoor concerts, BeachLife Festival has found a way to avoid being drowned out — by choosing to ride its own wave.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Marlon, Jackie, Jaafar and La Toya Jackson -- one of Michael's sisters -- shared embraces on the black carpet, where they met the actors who portrayed them and their parents in the film.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

The author, an older person, embraces talking to strangers to regain lost social connections and counter feelings of marginalization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

A global risk would be that Iran embraces the tolls it recently started charging for each tanker passing through the strait as a new, lucrative income stream, he said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026

Think of all the embraces, all the private jokes, customs, greetings, names, dreams, all the shared knowledge and capacity of a black family injected into that vessel of flesh and bone.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates