encompassment

Example Sentences

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Yanagihara’s characters are able to live this encompassment.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2020

That’s an encompassment for the kids around here, where I’m from, stuff like that.

From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2020

But its encompassment by the sea, its peninsularity, is the dominating difference between the Seward Peninsula and the interior, and does indeed make a different country of it altogether.

From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson

He waved one hand here and there, as though generalizing the whole luxurious encompassment.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

The encompassment of the fort was attempted, but it was impossible to force through the abatis and other obstacles under the destructive fire of the enemy.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count