encircling

Example Sentences

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Behind the concertina wire encircling the bases, Germans could experience American bowling alleys and drive-in theaters.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Our beautiful encircling topography of mountains and hills is a bowl ready-made by ancient plate tectonics to be filled with smoke and smog.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

These fisheries rely on purse-seine nets, a method that captures schooling fish by encircling them with a large wall of netting.

From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2025

Security forces launched a "large-scale operation" after encircling the camp "with the aim of handing over French members wanted by their government", said Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor.

From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025

The police, in blue uniforms, are encircling them and thirty-odd additional migrants who have spent the night among the dead.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario