enfold

George’s cluckingly affectionate aunt wants to enfold Hedda in a tradition that would consign her to the role of wife and mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

Little did I know this decision would nearly get me arrested, set me on a path across two coasts, instigate community programming, and enfold kindred spirits near and far.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

When you see the power of love and people reaching out from their own pain, how that can really surround you and enfold you and help you.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2023

Fortunately, one of Ozeki’s gifts as a novelist is the ability to enfold provocative intellectual material within a human story grounded in sharply observed social detail.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021

They collide, enfold, lose their balance, and slam against a wall, where they stay.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Cynthia puts her hands out to clasp mine and then enfolds me in her arms.

From BBC ● May 25, 2024

The play, which takes place in the backyard of Joe and Kate’s Midwestern home, enfolds a domestic drama in a larger American narrative about capitalist corruption.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2019

Author and illustrator Oge Mora’s collage art enfolds her characters in warm, inviting colors.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2019

It’s not just that Peyton Manning is 1-2 as a Super Bowl starter, and that his 13-13 postseason record enfolds the most playoff losses of any N.F.L. quarterback.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2016

I am careful not to wake this girl who enfolds me.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

Harplike plinks and clicking percussion rise around her voice, enfolded in instrumental and vocal harmonies as she sings that “portals open as you slowly drift through/surrounded by our love.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

One wishes the film better enfolded Indigenous culture within the narrative: While we do see a few hints, what’s given is not enough.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

He set them down on the tiled floor, opened the door of one, reached inside with a dark towel, and enfolded what was inside.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2022

Tucker Carlson burst through the doors of Charlie Palmer Steak, enfolded in an entourage of producers and assistants, cellphone pressed to his ear.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2022

Mrs. Weasley sobbed harder than ever as she enfolded Harry in her arms.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Essential to a wilderness is its capacity to bewilder, and though certain of Church’s colleagues in the Hudson River group, notably Worthington Whittredge, brilliantly captured this dense, enfolding quality, Church seldom did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

But the bigger challenge is that Green is enfolding stories within stories that have an associative yet indirect connection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

“He has the gift of enfolding the stories of people from many different backgrounds into his work.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2021

Rather than denying that self-pity can be pleasurable, she reveals how that pleasure comes from enfolding oneself in imagined care.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2020

So all around her the water and the sun, like a bubble, and arms, like water but not water, more solid than water, enfolding her.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder