compassed
Example Sentences
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“Wild Swans” would seem to have laid bare every cruel irony of the volatile times it compassed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
The "great tracts of land" he imagines "compassed about with heavens fair" are not necessarily those of Eden.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2010
Manchu China en compassed all of Mongolia, Korea and Taiwan.
From Time Magazine Archive
And as men's political horizons expand toward the world state, each man feels a stronger need to cherish some one region small enough to be compassed by one heart and mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
He hath delivered me out of the snares of mine enemies," Nathan replied earnestly, "even when they compassed me about in wrath.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Robert H. Fuller
