engulf
Example Sentences
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When fires broke out, flames could engulf an entire train car, forcing Woods to act quickly to contain the blaze with buckets of water and shovelfuls of sand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
These residents insist they are neutral and refuse to leave, even as the fighting threatens to engulf their towns and villages.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
"If you keep working hard, the hard work will find a way to engulf the problem and make it tolerable. That is what I'm doing."
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
Unlike some immune cells, macrophages can directly engulf cancer cells.
From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 2026
I guess I wasn’t exactly what she’d had in mind, a dainty daughter to help her bail against the rising tide of the rough-and-tumble boyish energy that always threatened to engulf the house.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing engulf
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
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Divergent
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