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 her encompassment, as is so apt to be the case here, was pitiably mediocre.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

But nobody has blown away from the matter its brumous encompassment and let in the light upon it It is very simple.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)

Money, indeed, if certain ill-natured gossip of tradesmen be true, has been an inconsiderable factor in the encompassment of this sartorial distinction.

From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Wilson, Harry Leon