surround
verb (used with object)
to enclose on all sides; encompass.
surrounds
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present tense formof surround (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Greengrass surrounds Garfield with actors who deliver bigger performances, like Jarvis as the brutish but shrewd Tyler, and Bell as the fervent Ball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Nor is he satisfied with regularly televised Oval Office events, where he surrounds himself with administration officials singing hosannas to his greatness.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Quiet and shadowy, it has a slowly mounting power in its depiction of the conspiratorial thinking that surrounds the chronovisor, which Ernetti suggested was suppressed by the Vatican.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The felt surrounds the 3D-printed restoration and gives gases released by the resin a way to escape.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
I hope to become a pilot so I can escape the pressures of my life and rise above all the tension that surrounds me.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
