ringed
Example Sentences
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In nearby Hermiston, Ore., where small armies of workers recently toiled at two data-center sites ringed by barbed-wire fences, officials are trying to annex land for additional development in a bet the boom will continue.
This astrological belief holds that the ringed planet’s return to the position it occupied at a person’s birth marks the dividing line between youth and true adulthood.
From Salon
The largest jail for IS suspects is al-Sina in the city of Al Hasakah - ringed by high walls, and watch towers.
From BBC
This begins with buds that are ringed in white paper cones that protect the baby plant as it grows.
Meanwhile, East Jerusalem, which Palestinians regard as their capital, has been ringed with Jewish settlements, gradually cutting off the city from the West Bank.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.