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[en-lays] / ɛnˈleɪs /


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Among the many tattoos that enlace her limbs is one of the Bataclan, on her left forearm.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2021

Three minutes into the conversation with the Matamoros editor, the senior editor began raising his voice about the enlace.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2015

Marion, for her possession of him who should have been her husband; Philip, for her ceaseless efforts to enlace herself round his heart.

From The Sapphire Cross by George Manville Fenn

Suddenly the detested plants had disappeared and two arms sought to enlace him.

From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Do you, within your little hour of Grace, The waving Cypress in your Arms enlace, Before the Mother back into her arms Fold, and dissolve you in a last embrace.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

They came from a world enlaced with traditional forms, in which the idea of an avant-garde was barely conceivable and the notion of radical renewal seemed like cultural parricide.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this moment, as if to confirm Sir Grummore’s opinion, a pair of enlaced figures sauntered along the diff road.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Helen’s hands closed, and her fingers were tightly enlaced as she tried to find a way out of her difficulties.

From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn

Now enlaced with wreathed smiles, All together dance and play.—

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

The goldcrests twittered, the squirrels chased, While the lofty pines, brown arms enlaced, Lisped a dryad-taught melody, sung by the sea.

From The Dales of Arcady by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe

The subject of both literary arts, for Maxwell, is the enlacing of human passions in the web of relationships, rules, habits and prejudices that make up what is called society.

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2021

All kinds of geometrical figures are used, enlacing with graceful intricacy, intersecting, combining and dissolving; conventional foliage and fruit, Arabic inscriptions.

From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Storm, wind, and rain had vanished like the flying phantoms of an evil dream, and all the beautiful land sparkled with light and life in its enlacing girdle of turquoise blue sea.

From Temporal Power by Marie Corelli

The sense of desperate tendrils enlacing him was almost suffocating, and each tendril craved for recognition; a lapse, a look, an inattention was the cutting of something that bled, and clung the closer.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

But Winsome moved away from him, walking down towards the mouth of the linn, through the thickly wooded glen, and underneath the overarching trees, with their enlacing lattice-work of curving boughs.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett


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