engulf

In 2013, flooding engulfed downtown Calgary, rising up the stands at the city’s hockey stadium.

On Friday, VA chief Eric Shinseki finally publicly took charge of the scandal engulfing his agency.

This sad drama has been compounded by an engulfing fog of speculation, frequently reaching a tone of hysteria.

A sprint from the alley to the east into the greenbelt and the engulfing woods.

One came close, as the wind suddenly shifted, to engulfing an Arab house.

The Syrian conflict threatens to draw America, Russia, and Europe into a wild inferno engulfing the entire Mideast.

Food may be taken into the body at any point, the semifluid protoplasm simply rolling over and engulfing the food material.

He pointed out of the window across the street, where the rapidly-gaining fire was engulfing the building.

With a little murmured cry she released herself, and flitted away into the engulfing darkness.

From forty to fifty, the flower in full bloom, the period of engulfing passions, of urgent transitory satisfactions.

The wretched man cried out wildly, like one who sees an engulfing wave too late.