- present participle of encompass.
encompassing
Example Sentences
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That’s roughly 300 acres, encompassing the parking lots, the hillsides meeting the 110 Freeway, and 149 concrete planters nicknamed “martinis” for their glass-like shape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The debate about the appropriateness of wearing balaclavas in public places goes wider than e-bikes, encompassing anti-social behaviour, crime and some anti-immigration protests.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Continental said the field it plans to explore sits north of Venezuela’s Orinoco River in the state of Anzoátegui, encompassing 126,000 acres with an estimated 30 billion barrels of oil resources buried underground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The protected area is enormous, encompassing everything we could see through our binoculars from there.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Quite a few of those families occupy large contiguous areas—in the case of Indo-European, the area encompassing most of Europe east through much of western Asia to India.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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