enveloping

Example Sentences

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The new wing was designed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas with Cooper Robertson, and has the geometric look of angular mesh enveloping an open stair case, elevator shafts and display spaces.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

In the confrontation that followed, one of the agents tossed a tear-gas canister, which an employee kicked under their vehicle, enveloping it with noxious fumes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

Their voices soared, cracked with grief, enveloping those gathered in a wave of pure emotion.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

It’s a decision that was partly spiritual: when the world feels unmoored, it seemed perhaps worth remembering that our predecessors relied on the seasons as enveloping promises of change.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2025

I peered into the enveloping blackness between my feet to see Emma pulling herself even farther down by the rungs of a ladder.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs