Example Sentences

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And if a spark did catch, it could quickly mirror the inferno that was engulfing Pacific Palisades, or worse.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

IN MID-2020, as sourdough was engulfing kitchens across the country, I had a different baking drama afoot.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2022

Khachaturyan, who was 35, was from an ethnic Armenian family that had left the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan in 1988 to escape the sectarian conflict that was engulfing parts of the moribund Soviet empire.

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2020

All wrote about the place of the Jew in the modern world, some dismissively, most with sympathy, all beneath the shadow of the Nazi genocide that was engulfing Europe and their own families.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2019

Obinze had never made as much of an effort as he did the rest of the day to seem normal, to tame the rage that was engulfing him.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie