Example Sentences

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Cynthia puts her hands out to clasp mine and then enfolds me in her arms.

From BBC • May 25, 2024

Her recipes capture the flavors; the stories she enfolds around them evoke the richness of a lost universe.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2021

What singles Billi out, though, is the aura of loss and loneliness that enfolds her, even before she hears of her grandmother’s illness, and credit for that must go to Awkwafina.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 12, 2019

The play, which takes place in the backyard of Joe and Kate’s Midwestern home, enfolds a domestic drama in a larger American narrative about capitalist corruption.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2019

But Mama’s sweetness enfolds him and coaxes him back.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez