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
Said 80-year-old Sir J. J. Thomson, famed discoverer of the electron, who once was Rutherford's teacher: ''His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prairie rolled away back of them as it was compassed by the flying feet, and still the mighty ride went on.
From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady
