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

Had she remained content as she was she might have kept him on the original terms in perpetuity; but it looked as if in precipitating the event she had encompassed her own defeat.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

The strain of travel now being over, we were able to enjoy a few hours' rest, our hearts full of gratitude for the many mercies which had encompassed us all our journey through.

From God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada by Lowe, Clara M. S.

Glad she was indeed, but exceeding worn and weary with the long voyage, and all the longing and fear and hope which had encompassed her that while. 

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William