surrounded

As is sometimes the case with Bessent, there’s a tiny nugget of truth in his words, surrounded by a bodyguard of misrepresentation.

“It is surrounded by a large forest,” she ventured.

To Penelope it was the safest place in the world, a place where she would be surrounded by old friends and beloved teachers, and where everyone would have the Incorrigible children’s best interests at heart.

It had been furnished only with a long table surrounded by precisely one dozen chairs.

The sumbook was opened, spine cracked, pencil marks in the margins, surrounded by a scattering of paper.