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

Floating on a wall just inside a heavy door on Ninth Avenue, 14 resin sculptures of varying sizes and delicate, glowing colors encase ephemera from across the ages.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2023

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

In its bottom there was about two inches of mud, thick enough to encase me.

From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Fuller, Charles Augustus