enwrap
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Often, she coos the most extravagant slang that can be found for her tissue-paper tongue to enwrap.
From Time Magazine Archive
To many who walked homeward that evening it seemed in that benediction to enwrap the centuries of history they had so feverishly been celebrating, and to fold them softly away as a garment.
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Here shines no golden roof, no ivory stair, No king exalted in a stately chair, Girt with attendants, or by heralds styled, But straw and hay enwrap a speechless child.
From In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV by Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) Morris
Stormclouds enwrap the day, and rainy gloom blots out the sky; out of the clouds bursts fire fast upon fire.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
They had been used, I thought, to enwrap the flagons and cups.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield
“The danger was it being so low to the ground, in many cases, that you’d be so enwrapped in the composition of the photograph that you would stall the plane and get in an accident.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
The weather conditions were hardly San Diego-like when Clevinger, nicknamed “Sunshine,” finally took the mound as low-hanging clouds enwrapped Progressive Field during the early innings.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2022
I was so enwrapped in the earnest endeavor I forgot, “This must be served with very hard or very silly jokes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2019
“The ships were enwrapped in a torrent of fire” and “presented one of the most sublime and magnificent spectacles which can be imagined.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2019
For a long, long moment—she sitting, he kneeling, their cheeks warmly close—a delicious silence enwrapped them.
From The Tigress by Anne Warner
They’re some kind of selfie heaven, as are the enwrapping and enrapturing video works in “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest”* at the New Museum, starting Oct.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2016
Almost every nation and faith and ethnicity has a terrible enwrapping tale to tell about its persecution.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 20, 2015
The world was still pulsing with color, but the grey of twilight was slowly enwrapping it.
From Told in a French Garden August, 1914 by Mildred Aldrich
With luxury of such figures was the coverlet adorned, enwrapping the bed with its mantling embrace.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
But Sassoon and the lure of a thousand shop-windows spreading before her their soft enwrapping mysteries of splendor....
From The Salamander by Owen Johnson
