Example Sentences

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Over the next month, what had been an argument between two nations was enveloping the entire continent.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The sound world she created throughout was enveloping, warm and attentive.

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2022

The Chiefs used Zoom throughout the 2020 offseason, when the pandemic was enveloping the world, and Mathieu used the same system to take part in meetings virtually the past two weeks.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2021

It wasn’t as if I was looking at a painting; the painting was enveloping me and filling me with its mood, which was impossible to escape.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2020

He tried to shake off the morose shadow that was enveloping him.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie