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 ā 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 ā Jan. 5, 2015
Heaven alone knew by what other blood-thirsty threats than Mom Murphy Mike had encompassed the stony silence and frenzied drumming of the little sister who had never had a Christmas.
From When the Yule Log Burns A Christmas Story by Leona Dalrymple
A deeply drawn sigh was here the prelude to the startling revelation, that since his present sea of troubles had encompassed him about the old flame had been rekindled in his heart.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
The pain of the blow was quite gone now, except for a strange sickness that had encompassed her.
From The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall
