ENGULF in a Sentence
Learn ENGULF 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.
22 example sentences for ENGULF, such as:
1. The sewer of Rome has engulfed the world.
2. We see the bright light engulf him completely.
3. And Moscow engulfed the army ever deeper and deeper.
4. They are there engulfed, but they display themselves there.
5. The carriages were engulfed in flames with terrifying speed.
2. We see the bright light engulf him completely.
3. And Moscow engulfed the army ever deeper and deeper.
4. They are there engulfed, but they display themselves there.
5. The carriages were engulfed in flames with terrifying speed.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ENGULF
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
engulf
v. devote (oneself) fully to
v. flow over or cover completely
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 As the high watery walls came rolling in, and, at their highest, tumbled into surf, they looked as if the least would engulf the town.
2 But were he wrecked, the living water would engulf him, helpless; and he would indeed be lost.
3 There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice.
4 It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
5 It is because it, too, as a matter of fact, has been engulfed in a deluge.
6 What redoubled the tenderness of his gratitude towards Thenardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that Thenardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter.
7 Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a paper folded in four.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT
8 The sewer of Rome has engulfed the world.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
9 They are there engulfed, but they display themselves there.
10 He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence.
11 Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
12 From every side resounded acclamations of welcome, and Chichikov felt himself engulfed in a sea of embraces.
13 And Moscow engulfed the army ever deeper and deeper.
14 Like the seventh and last wave that shatters a ship, that last irresistible wave burst from the rear and reached the front ranks, carrying them off their feet and engulfing them all.
15 This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe.
Example Sentence:
1 We see the bright light engulf him completely.
2 The carriages were engulfed in flames with terrifying speed.
3 The United Nations released figures that highlighted the carnage that has engulfed Syria for more than two years
4 A seven-year-old boy was found dead after a landslide engulfed a block of flats.