Example Sentences

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Yanagihara’s characters are able to live this encompassment.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2020

That’s an encompassment for the kids around here, where I’m from, stuff like that.

From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2020

But her encompassment, as is so apt to be the case here, was pitiably mediocre.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

But its encompassment by the sea, its peninsularity, is the dominating difference between the Seward Peninsula and the interior, and does indeed make a different country of it altogether.

From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson

But mystery I then accepted as the only complement, the encompassment, of what we know of our life.

From Heart of Man by Woodberry, George Edward