encompass
verb (used with object)
had encompassed
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past perfectof encompass.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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I watched part of the trial with my mother, who spent many years as a marital and family therapist and whose clients had encompassed both victims and perpetrators of domestic violence.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2022
Even though the Hart and Risley study had encompassed just a few dozen families, the transcribing and coding of all those tapes had been laborious.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 5, 2015
Ten minutes later they crossed a low ridge, and at once the precipice which had encompassed them opened out swiftly on either hand.
From Jack Haydon's Quest by John Jellicoe
She was no longer young when she had accepted Mr. Lenox, and by what means she had encompassed his subjugation we were never told: he always shook his head when he alluded to his courtship.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various
Mrs. Daymond came forward and took both Pauline's hands, and, straightway it seemed to Pauline as if a bountiful beneficent power had encompassed her round about.
From A Venetian June by Anna Fuller
