encase

Example Sentences

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Enormous machines wrapped layers of carbon around 40-foot-long cylinders, producing carbon tubes that can encase burning rocket fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

She thought perhaps she could keep them, encase them in a necklace to wear in memory.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025

However, the quantum noise that lurks inside the vacuum tubes that encase LIGO's laser beams can alter the timing of the photons in the beams by minutely small amounts.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023

As The Times reported in May on the growing number of assaults against Metro bus drivers, the agency is attempting to curtail such incidents by installing floor-to-ceiling plastic walls that fully encase the driver.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Dick was building an electric heating unit to encase the entire tube, which could be regulated for any desired temperature.

From Wanted—7 Fearless Engineers! by Tremaine, Frederick Orlin