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• She felt safe in her mother's encircling arms.From the entry encircling
• A large handkerchief covering her head was knotted below her chin, encircling her sunburned and wrinkled face.2017 December 17, Kee B. Park, “Amid Talk of Nuclear Weapons, North Koreans Go Hungry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry weed
• Then a small whirlwind of dust and kvitls swept over him, encircled him, and lifted him away.2017, Rhoda Lerman, God's Ear: A Novel, The Overlook Press, →ISBN. From the entry kvitl
• The conical hypostome was encircled by 4–14 filiform amphicoronate tentacles with nematocysts.2016 February 4, “Green Fluorescence of Cytaeis Hydroids Living in Association with Nassarius Gastropods in the Red Sea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry amphicoronate
• To highlight the phenotype, lacking macrochaetae are encircled on the left heminotum.2015 October 9, “Generation of New Hairless Alleles by Genomic Engineering at the Hairless Locus in Drosophila melanogaster”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry heminotum
• Her dupatta slipped from her shoulders, as he encircled her waist with one hand.2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee. From the entry dupatta
• The dragon Jörmungandr, for instance, was said to encircle the entire world of Midgard (where people live).2006, Stephen Krensky, Dragons, page 28. From the entry Jörmungandr
• Three levels of booklined shelves encircle the room, protected behind railinged galleries connected by a steep staircase.2001, Neil Baldwin, Edison: inventing the century. From the entry railinged
• They were rising from the ground; a swarm of angry bees encircling him in a cloud.2001, Carl Bilicska, Vengeance, page 35. From the entry beebee
• Welsh resistance effectively collapsed, to be encircled with new castlefuls of Edward’s soldiers.1992, Pat Gerber, “England’s Edward and the Celtic Fringes”, in The Search for the Stone of Destiny, Canongate Press, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry castleful
• How could they possibly hope to encircle this most formidable of enemies?1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry Kutuzov
• Then the octopusal arms of a creeping university encircled the area.1974, Madison Area Guide. From the entry octopusal
• I remember how charming were the partly colored lines which encircled them.1932 March, Dan Beard, “New-Fashioned Kites and Old-Fashioned Marbles”, in Boys' Life, page 27. From the entry china
• Its surface is possessed of a mild satin glow, an encircling gestalt which seems independent of stock solar light.2021, Donald Wesling, Internal Resistances: The Poetry of Edward Dorn, page 63. From the entry farctate
• Nowadays, its apartments go to finance workers who work nearby, while its bars are samey places encircled by moats of urine.2014 June 24, Feargus O'Sullivan, “The Pernicious Realities of 'Artwashing'”, in Bloomberg. From the entry samey
• It encircles the cap of the shoulder.2012, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder. From the entry deltoidus
• They are used for encircling the head.2003, Penny Delamar, The Complete Make-up Artist, page 163. From the entry marteau
• The second puzzle was this: why were the vast rectangles between the encircling columns at ground level blank?1987, Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard: […], New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 229. From the entry yclept
• Angelo sensed something behind him; he turned and Emmett's powerful arms encircled him, trapping him in a necklock.1987, Edward F. Connolly, A Cop's Cop, page 81. From the entry necklock
• I thought of a trapped chick that could not get more than its beaked skull out of the encircling shell.1979, Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Part I. From the entry macrocephalic
• Parker partly encircled by a florate border.1978, Journal of the Philosophical Research Society, volumes 38–39, page 22. From the entry florate
• If we are encircled by the greatness of the past, we are also encircled by the handicap of our own sin.1972, William Barclay, “The Race and the Goal”, in The Letter to the Hebrews (The Daily Study Bible Series), rev. edition, Louisville…. From the entry pantechnicon
• Encircling the marble altar was a congregation of leering shamen.1970, Jim Theis, “The Eye of Argon”, in OSFAN, volume 10, Chapter 3½, page 33. From the entry age
• A giant arm encircled the tawny throat, and a long blade sank once, true as a die, into the fierce heart.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 124. From the entry true as a die
• Coll. pl. xiv), which, conventionalized, it constantly encircles.1905, American Journal of Archaeology, page 76. From the entry cymae
• From the waist up, the woman's body is bare, save for a strand of beads encircling her neck and crossing her torso under each breast.2016, Lisa Ze Winters, The Mulatta Concubine, page 127. From the entry signare
• Encircling in turn the best bearing trees, they drank from “clayen-cups,” and poured part of the contents on the ground under the trees.2016, Alice Morse Earle, Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth, Krill Press via PublishDrive, →ISBN. From the entry clayen
• There are yet more hives nooked into the very walls that encircle the city, and tucked in trees that edge the fields beyond the walls.2014, Lois Leveen, Juliet's Nurse, page 233. From the entry nook
• There, around the entire block that encircles the museum (a gothic Hogwartsy thing in the center), streets are closed off and clogged with them.2014, Wendy Wunder, The Museum of Intangible Things, Razorbill, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry Hogwartsy
• The basis of the chaperon was a wreath-like pad, called a bourlet or roundlet (not unlike a miniature motor-tyre), encircling the temples.2011, Dorothy Hartley, Medieval Costume and How to Recreate It, page 91. From the entry roundlet
• Those white women whose superiority encircled them like an aureole, could quieten any raucous gathering by just placing a finger to a lip.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 4, in Small Island, London: Review, page 69. From the entry aureole
• She winked at the Horned Ones, who did not seem to mind being left so precipitously to child-mind, and drew Azhure toward the encircling trees.2003, Sara Douglass, Starman. From the entry child-mind
• The order of angels in the sphere of Chokmah are the Auphanim, or “Wheels,” a word derived from the root AVPh which means “to encircle.”2002, John Bonner, Qabalah: A Magical Primer. From the entry Auphanim
• Since gorgets completely encircled the neck, they were usually more articulated than the bevors to allow for some movement of the neck and head.2001, Paul B. Newman, Daily life in the Middle Ages, page 210. From the entry bevor
• In my recent strategic update, I go into great detail about how Russians want to encircle New York, which is located right between Chasiv Yar and Avdiivka.2024 February 20, RFU News — Reporting from Ukraine, 5:25 from the start, in 20 Feb: INCREDIBLE! Ukrainians BREAK BEHIND RUSSIAN LINES AND…. From the entry New York
• After having defended the constantly shrinking perimeter of their position for over two weeks, the encircled German units in the Cherkassy “cauldron” were ordered to break out.1966, George H. Stein, The Waffen SS: Hitler’s Elite Guard at War, 1939–1945, →ISBN, page 217. From the entry cauldron
• The encircling, mile-high mountains of the Coeur d'Alene mining area, rich in lead, zinc and silver, curtain off the sunlight except for a few midday hours.1960 November 14, “Strike Town”, in Time. From the entry curtain off

Meaning of encircle

1. verb To surround, form a circle around.
2. verb To move or go around completely.

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Questions about encircle in a sentence

How do you use encircle in a sentence?

Encircle is used as a verb. For example: “She felt safe in her mother's encircling arms.”

What is a short sentence with encircle?

“It encircles the cap of the shoulder.”

What does encircle mean?

Encircle means to surround, form a circle around.