encase

Steel ribs encase the viewer, giving one the feeling of being in an upturned ship, as a soundtrack that ranges from gospel singing to mechanical clicks plays in the background.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

She thought perhaps she could keep them, encase them in a necklace to wear in memory.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025

Floating on a wall just inside a heavy door on Ninth Avenue, 14 resin sculptures of varying sizes and delicate, glowing colors encase ephemera from across the ages.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

However, the quantum noise that lurks inside the vacuum tubes that encase LIGO's laser beams can alter the timing of the photons in the beams by minutely small amounts.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

Dick was building an electric heating unit to encase the entire tube, which could be regulated for any desired temperature.

From Wanted—7 Fearless Engineers! by Frederick Orlin Tremaine

“Midnight Movement” encases Monk’s best-known melody, “’Round Midnight” within a chiming, repeated figure and a gauze of natural overtones and synth tones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The operation's name - "matryoshkas" are Russian nesting dolls - mirrors its method, which encases an original false claim in layers of ambient re-posts from old or hacked social media accounts.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

Most quantum computers include a component casually referred to as a “fridge,” a cryogenic enclosure that encases the processor and keeps it cold.

From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026

When a caterpillar finally encases itself into a pupa, it doesn’t just grow wings and emerge as a butterfly.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2023

Carefully she shapes a bit of the potato around a spoonful of cooked ground lamb, as uniformly as the white of a hard-boiled egg encases its yolk.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

The excavation process took longer than usual, about 10 days, since the fossils were encased in very hard mudstone under six feet of rock, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

I have, it turns out, a thing for sausage encased in dough.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Messenger RNA technology uses synthetic molecular instructions encased in tiny fat bubbles that temporarily enter cells, causing them to produce targets that train the body’s immune system.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

By day, it bubbles in a giant stainless-steel pot about 5 feet across and one foot deep, encased in lava-like concrete and heated by gas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

And we were all encased in formal clothes—Mom in a dress, me in long pants and a sports jacket, with a new tie carefully knotted at my neck.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

For the aircraft of tomorrow, Safran is also developing an "open fan" engine free of the nacelle or encasing, which traditionally encloses and protects the fan blades.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Bulletproof glass encasing the portico for his annual appearance with the Easter Bunny?

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

He stood on the concrete channel encasing the San Gabriel River, shortly before donning waders to help send Porkchop off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

This mammoth died nearby, but his carcass slumped into an ancient stream bed and was covered by sediment and eventually topped by the pits’ oozing asphalt, encasing and preserving his bones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

I picture the sheets of black armor encasing my arms and body and legs, turning me into someone else.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu