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

The sequence is an ever-widening sense of a sweet and celestial encompassment.

From The Chief End of Man by Merriam, George Spring

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

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