encircle
Example Sentences
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The backyard trees shade and encircle it, keep it tucked away.
From Literature
A collar of bones encircled her short neck, some poor dead animal’s rib cage fanning up and around her head.
From Literature
Our beautiful encircling topography of mountains and hills is a bowl ready-made by ancient plate tectonics to be filled with smoke and smog.
From Los Angeles Times
Several thousand people compete for spots in the lots and decks that encircle the headquarters.
The new English coast path links with the Wales Coast Path - an 870-mile route encircling the Welsh coastline.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
