encase

Example Sentences

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Enormous machines wrapped layers of carbon around 40-foot-long cylinders, producing carbon tubes that can encase burning rocket fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

She thought perhaps she could keep them, encase them in a necklace to wear in memory.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025

However, the quantum noise that lurks inside the vacuum tubes that encase LIGO's laser beams can alter the timing of the photons in the beams by minutely small amounts.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023

As The Times reported in May on the growing number of assaults against Metro bus drivers, the agency is attempting to curtail such incidents by installing floor-to-ceiling plastic walls that fully encase the driver.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Her patient fairly off her hands, Mona seemed to encase herself with a cold reserve, as in a shell.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram