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 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)
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
Zion is the Whole of things—the encompassment of space, and time, and endless years,—an environment of immortality and peace.
From The Warriors by Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown
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