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How to use enclose in a sentence

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Enclose means to surround with a wall, fence, etc. Example: “Please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope if you require a reply.”

Examples of enclose by meaning

verbTo surround with a wall, fence, etc.

  • to enclose lands
  • When members of this clan come upon the tracks of a tiger, they must, as a mark of homage, enclose them with three little sticks.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 35
  • The creative commons of the internet has been gradually and inexorably enclosed, much as agricultural land was by parliamentary acts from 1600 onwards in England.2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian

verbTo insert into a container, usually an envelope or package.

  • Please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope if you require a reply.

More sentences with enclose

  • I am enclosing an application form, which I should be grateful if you'd sign and return.From the entry which
  • An overbust corset encloses the torso, extending from just under the arms to the hips.From the entry overbust
  • Circumaural headphones enclose the ear, supra-aural headphones rest on the ear's surface, and earbuds are placed inside the ear.From the entry headphones
  • When interpolating an explanatory gloss, please enclose it in square brackets to make clear that it is interpolated.From the entry interpolate
  • The orthogonal convex hull of an orthogonal polygon is the smallest orthogonally convex polygon that encloses the original polygon.From the entry hull
  • The edge of the island is steep and formed by a narrow reef belt enclosing a lagoon.2021, Jinming Li, “Geographical overview of China's maritime boundaries in the South China Sea”, in Liao Jing, Fu Rongbao, transl.…. From the entry South Rock
  • It is one of the earliest cultivated forms of wheat and its husks enclose the grains tightly.2014, Anne Bergeret et al., “2: Valorization of Agricultural By-Products in Poly(Lactic Acid) to Develop Biocomposites”, in Vijay Kumar…. From the entry einkorn wheat
  • When we apply non-spacing or enclosing combining characters to it, we extend the cluster.2007, Yannis Haralambous, Fonts & Encodings, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry grapheme cluster
  • She played the fugue with marked sadness, and then brought back the septimate chords to enclose it.1969, The American Literary Anthology, II, page 267. From the entry septimate
  • Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth (hardback edition), p19. From the entry copse
  • Enclose open eaves with noncombustible soffit material.2024 November 10, Alaa Elassar, “As California wildfires become more frequent, people will need to fireproof their homes. Here’s what it…. From the entry soffit
  • Triangles enclosing tetragrammatons can also be found in the frontispieces of many non-religious works from the same period.2018, Quentin Skinner, From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 295. From the entry tetragrammaton
  • Multiple bits moving in macroprocess join triplet macrounits which logically organize information networks encoding units in structures enclosing triplet code.2015, Vladimir S. Lerner, “The impulse observations of random process generate information binding reversible micro and irreversible macro…. From the entry organize
  • The cranial bones, or cranium (kra′ne-um), enclose and protect the fragile brain and furnish attachment sites for head and neck muscles.2010, Elaine N. Marieb, Katja Hoehn, “Chapter 7 "The Skeleton"”, in Human Anatomy and Physiology, 8th edition, page 200. From the entry cranium
  • Before proceeding with furniture, Akerman advises removing the glass enclosing the Florida room, as it creates a small awkward space.2007 October 20, Donna Jean MacKinnon, “Keep your decorating light, airy to spruce up large condo”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 23…. From the entry Florida room
  • The labia minor enclose the clitoris anteriorly.2002, John N. K. Mbilu, Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynaecology for Clinical Officers and Midwives, page 2. From the entry labia minor
  • Replace 2 and 4 by thickened toruses 2′ and 4′ enclosing 3′ and replace 1 and 5 by the remaining regions.1952, F. B. Fuller, Note on trajectories in a solid torus, in Annals of Mathematics 56(3), p439. From the entry toruses
  • Cuspate bars are developed at Paspébiac and New Carlisle; the triangular bar at Paspébiac encloses a large barachois.1939, Stuart Alvord Northrop, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Silurian Rocks of the Port Daniel-Black Cape Region, Gaspé, Geological…. From the entry barachois
  • And on an island as small as Nantucket, a spideress does not need to spread her web very far before it encloses virtually everyone.2014, John Vanderslice, “[King Philip’s War] On Cherry Street”, in Island Fog, New Orleans, La.: Lavender Ink, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry spideress
  • Duck-fat fried chicken ($24) was an excellent representation of Derry’s Southern cooking skills, with a heavily crunchy, corn-flaky crust enclosing the most, tender meat.2011 October 21, Teresa Gubbins, “Twice as nice: Whether you order off the menu at Private or Social, chef Tiffany Derry’s food is a real…. From the entry corn-flaky
  • As a starting point, such a workstand could be similar to the "bucket" of a cherry picker, essentially a cylinder enclosing the worker.1990, Thomas J. Albin, Assessment of Accident Risk During Haulage Truck and Power Shovel Maintenance and Recommendations for Improved…. From the entry workstand
  • Each box contains ten light wooden frames which enclose the honeycomb so that you can lift it out one frameful at a time.1976, Lloyd E. Eighme, The country way, page 138. From the entry frameful
  • Beyond is the final stretch of the Ch'in Great Wall, dividing Kansu from Mongolia and enclosing the cities of Kanchow and Suchow.1965, Robert Silverberg, The Great Wall of China, Chilton Books, page 48. From the entry Suchow
  • Only in planted areas does one find old examples of planned ‘courtyard farms’ where the house and offices enclose a square or rectangular yard.1957, Emyr Estyn Evans, chapter VIII, in Irish Folk Ways, page 112. From the entry office
  • She sent a letter to Ivy Bolton, enclosing a note to the keeper, and asking Mrs Bolton to give it to him.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XVIII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 283. From the entry rash
  • Fishing for piracatinga often involves enclosing an entire decomposing carcass within a submerged corral into which the catfish are lured; the bigger the bait, the larger the catch.2020, David Dudgeon, Freshwater Biodiversity, Cambridge University Press, page 105. From the entry piracatinga
  • The pond is an archetype, a mold so to speak of primordial dimensions; it is embedded with natural forms; it is the material enclosing objects of study.2014, Susan Naramore Maher, Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains. From the entry pondness
  • The epidermal layer reacts to the production and adhesion of this keratic substance by descending along the artificial hair in a fashion that eventually encloses it.2013, Masumi Inaba, Yoshitaka Inaba, Androgenetic Alopecia, →ISBN. From the entry keratic
  • In comes a snail-mail missive from a nonadmirer in Detroit enclosing that column, underlining the word anticipate and scrawling across the ripped-out page “we can expect .”2007 February 11, William Safire, “Culpa for Mayor”, in New York Times. From the entry nonadmirer
  • In all cornute species where cothurnopores are well preserved, each cothurnopore consists of two U-plates that meet one another at the tips, thus enclosing a small elliptical area.2002 April, Mónica Martí Mus, “The Ordovician cornute Flabellicystis rushtoni n. gen. n. sp. (Stylophora, Echinodermata) and its…. From the entry cothurnopore
  • To help combat these problems, almost all sailmakers trim the leeches of their headsails to a hollow or concave profile and enclose a LEECHLINE within the leech tabling.1984, Sven Donaldson, A Sailor's Guide to Sails, page 130. From the entry leech
  • Even more than the tondo, the oval is a playful shape, prescribed by the demands of the setting it bedecks rather than those of the composition it encloses.1983, Rudolf Arnheim, The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 135. From the entry tondo

Meaning of enclose

  1. verb To surround with a wall, fence, etc.
  2. verb To insert into a container, usually an envelope or package.

Full definition of enclose

Questions about enclose in a sentence

How do you use enclose in a sentence?
Enclose is used as a verb. For example: “Please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope if you require a reply.”
What is a short sentence with enclose?
“to enclose lands”
What does enclose mean?
Enclose means to surround with a wall, fence, etc.

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