- a variation of engulf.
ingulf
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Example Sentences
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Whirlpools turned her skiff round and round like a feather, and yawning gulfs threatened each moment to ingulf her.
From Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt
Lest envious fate your hopes ingulf, As once it served the hunter and the wolf.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur
Its ramparts of stone, garnished with twenty cannon, scowled across the encroaching Mississippi, destined, before many years, to ingulf curtain and bastion in its ravenous abyss.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
He dared not hope, and yet shrunk from the thought that he must not, knowing what lethargy must else ingulf his soul.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson
He is more concerned regarding their escape from the threatening doom that seems ready to ingulf them.
From Miss Caprice by Rathborne, George, St.
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