Example Sentences

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Our beautiful encircling topography of mountains and hills is a bowl ready-made by ancient plate tectonics to be filled with smoke and smog.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

When President Trump was asked about the China encircling Taiwan at a news conference on Monday, he shrugged.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

These fisheries rely on purse-seine nets, a method that captures schooling fish by encircling them with a large wall of netting.

From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2025

Security forces launched a "large-scale operation" after encircling the camp "with the aim of handing over French members wanted by their government", said Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor.

From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025

But no matter how stringent the effort, the thicknesses of middle age were encircling him and threatening to overwhelm the athlete’s body, the Marine’s body of which he was so proud.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy