Example Sentences

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Essential to a wilderness is its capacity to bewilder, and though certain of Church’s colleagues in the Hudson River group, notably Worthington Whittredge, brilliantly captured this dense, enfolding quality, Church seldom did.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

But the bigger challenge is that Green is enfolding stories within stories that have an associative yet indirect connection.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2025

“He has the gift of enfolding the stories of people from many different backgrounds into his work.”

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2021

Amid their taut geometries are passages of enfolding softness and effulgent color harmonies — rich reds, pale yellows and blues against his favorite milky lime green.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019

It was dark, with an enfolding blackness that pressed on Lyra’s eyes so heavily that she almost felt the weight of the thousands of tons of rock above them.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman