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Leverkus also organised a structural protection training course for locals to learn how to shield buildings from embers that can quickly spur fires that engulf entire towns.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 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

Unlike some immune cells, macrophages can directly engulf cancer cells.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 2026

Winter Storm Fern is forecast to engulf an area well over half the length of the continental United States, stretching from Texas and the Great Plains region to the mid-Atlantic and northeastern states.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

If they stayed where they were, the fire would engulf them.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Scaffolding engulfs the inside of the giant multi-billion-dollar structure, rising all the way up to the 100-metre-high ceiling.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

By soon, they mean any time before the sun engulfs us all, which will happen sometime in the next five billion years.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025

A staff member sits in an air-conditioned cab so they are protected from the dust, which engulfs the tunnels when the machine operates.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025

After a flood engulfs the cat’s home, it finds itself in a small sailboat along with the other three animals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024

‘If the statue engulfs people in fire, we should send Leo.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Croatian firefighters were tackling "one of the worst" wildfires in the country's history, fire chief Slavko Tucakovic said, as flames engulfed homes and injured 19 people on the coast.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

In Cambridgeshire, a wildfire has engulfed half of a nature reserve called Holme Fen, near Peterborough.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The commission was created in 1990 after a wave of political corruption scandals engulfed Mayor Tom Bradley’s administration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

That loss contributed mightily to the Great Inflation that engulfed most Western nations between 1965 and 1980.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

By midafternoon, still more than a thousand vertical feet below the top, they were engulfed by the same storm clouds that we encountered on the other side of the mountain.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Croteau, 38, could see water engulfing the windows as attendants rushed to assist travelers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

"Wildfire in Suffolk burns near nuclear plant" the Guardian says, printed below a photo of firefighters dousing flames engulfing a cluster of trees.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Now there are fears that as Wagner digs deeper into Bangui, it will add to the chaos already engulfing the wider region, said Dukhan, the researcher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

A bullish engulfing candle defined the lows in April 2025, and a hammer off the very round $100 level in April 2026, filling a gap from July 2025, again marked a trough.

From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026

We pushed our Formica cupboard up to the door and pressed against it with our bodies as the noise got closer and closer, until it was surrounding us, engulfing our home.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat