envelop

Example Sentences

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“I wasn’t a fragile, vulnerable creature onstage, begging the audience to protect me and envelop me,” she writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

This “deep-dive arctic wave” of weather is expected to envelop basically 50% of the U.S. — as many as 30 states, so it’s a big storm that’s not leaving soon, said Yawger.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 2026

Months after ICE’s widely publicized raids, fear continues to envelop Santa Ana, a majority-Hispanic city with a large immigrant population.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2025

As the stakes get higher, the plot ripples out into larger and larger concentric circles that envelop Maggie’s life and everyone in it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025

He stared ever more intently across the river as the growing darkness began to envelop the shell.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown