ENCOMPASS in a Sentence
Learn ENCOMPASS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
20 example sentences for ENCOMPASS, such as:
1. And this was encompassed with much bitterness.
2. You may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which encompass me.
3. The map shows the rest of the western region, encompassing nine states.
4. I was encompassed by a cloud which no beneficial influence could penetrate.
5. The role of the teacher could be expanded to encompass the role of researcher.
2. You may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which encompass me.
3. The map shows the rest of the western region, encompassing nine states.
4. I was encompassed by a cloud which no beneficial influence could penetrate.
5. The role of the teacher could be expanded to encompass the role of researcher.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ENCOMPASS
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encompass
v. surround; form a circle or ring around; enclose; envelop
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 But, from the greater part of the broad valley interposed, a mist was rising like a sea, which, mingling with the darkness, made it seem as if the gathering waters would encompass them.
2 You may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which encompass me.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
3 It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.
4 But she already partook of the pervading spirit of neglect which encompassed her.
5 I encompassed it almost round, before I could find a convenient place to land in; which was a small creek, about three times the wideness of my canoe.
6 Yet soon after, it advanced nearer, and I could see the sides of it encompassed with several gradations of galleries, and stairs, at certain intervals, to descend from one to the other.
7 I was encompassed by a cloud which no beneficial influence could penetrate.
8 I knew that I ought to hasten my descent towards the valley, as I should soon be encompassed in darkness; but my heart was heavy, and my steps slow.
9 I write to you, encompassed by peril and ignorant whether I am ever doomed to see again dear England and the dearer friends that inhabit it.
10 He beckoned, and straightway the new-comers were encompassed by four-and-twenty soldiers.
11 They were encompassed by fifty naked Oreillons, armed with bows and arrows, with clubs and flint hatchets.
12 And this was encompassed with much bitterness.
13 The warm damp balminess of spring encompassed her sweetly with the moist smells of new-plowed earth and all the fresh green things pushing up to the air.
14 A superstitious creeping horror seemed to fill the house; and though no one dared to breathe it to Legree, he found himself encompassed by it, as by an atmosphere.
15 Her face, encompassed by the blackness of the receding heath, showed whitely, and with-out half-lights, like a cameo.
Example Sentence:
1 All too often the outside researcher pursues lines of enquiry which the prevailing culture manages to encompass and nullify.
2 The role of the teacher could be expanded to encompass the role of researcher.
3 Although enemy forces encompass us, we are cheerful for we are well stocked and can withstand a siege until our allies join us.
4 The map shows the rest of the western region, encompassing nine states.