encircling

Example Sentences

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She pointed out one pup with a piece of trash encircling its neck.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

The report imagined an “emerald necklace,” an urban paradise of parks and rivers and open spaces and public beaches encircling L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

The “spiritual alchemist” who turns her San Antonio home into what looks like the HQ of a drug cartel by encircling the place with an 8-foot concrete wall.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

More waste arrives daily, piling up like technicolour snowdrifts along the roads and rivers of Xa Cau, one of hundreds of "craft" recycling villages encircling Vietnam's capital Hanoi where waste is sorted, shredded and melted.

From Barron's • Dec. 16, 2025

But no matter how stringent the effort, the thicknesses of middle age were encircling him and threatening to overwhelm the athlete’s body, the Marine’s body of which he was so proud.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy