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

You are met with a soothing electronic soundscape enfolding Parker’s understated, post-Grant Green guitar.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023

And it’s this grace that swirls like a ghost through “Past Lives,” enfolding all three central characters and investing their stories, or what little we see of those stories, with a rare and harmonious balance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Rather than denying that self-pity can be pleasurable, she reveals how that pleasure comes from enfolding oneself in imagined care.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2020

He embraces me, enfolding me in the smell of blood and roses, and plants a puffy kiss on my cheek.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins