engulf

Temperatures are expected to top 100 degrees in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and other cities this week when a dangerous heat wave and high humidity engulf the eastern two-thirds of the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

This finding suggests that the earliest blood cells may have resembled macrophages, which are immune cells that engulf harmful microbes and cellular debris.

From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026

Later, explaining to his mom why he doesn’t have any friends his own age, Valdi purses his lips in a mimicry of the older men who would engulf him — a touchingly sad little detail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

"If you keep working hard, the hard work will find a way to engulf the problem and make it tolerable. That is what I'm doing."

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

A wave of cold sickness threatened to engulf him again; he leaned back into the lumpy seat and closed his eyes until they had passed the gates.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

Scaffolding engulfs the inside of the giant multi-billion-dollar structure, rising all the way up to the 100-metre-high ceiling.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

By soon, they mean any time before the sun engulfs us all, which will happen sometime in the next five billion years.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025

A staff member sits in an air-conditioned cab so they are protected from the dust, which engulfs the tunnels when the machine operates.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025

Take, for example, the wildfire smoke that now regularly engulfs my city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2024

A senior chief petty officer named Angel Torres remembered, “All of the sudden, this big cloud engulfs us. It wasn’t white smoke. It was like something I’d never seen before.”

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

China launched a campaign against fire hazards in high-rise buildings in November, after a huge blaze engulfed several tower blocks in Hong Kong, killing 168 people.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

The final seconds provided a private tartan torture chamber for this small clan engulfed by conviviality.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

The midday celebration on Friday engulfed — and overwhelmed — one of the country’s largest cities on what was supposed to be a workday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

Khan, a hard-charging British lawyer, was the face of the court through the most consequential period of its 24-year history, a time when war engulfed Ukraine and the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

My body feels like it’s engulfed in flames.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Burnham is taking the reins amid global "turmoil", or so says the Sun, which writes that chaos is "already engulfing the crucial issue of oil and gas drilling".

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Now there are fears that as Wagner digs deeper into Bangui, it will add to the chaos already engulfing the wider region, said Dukhan, the researcher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

In 2022, clusters of doji candles and bearish engulfing patterns reflected sustained downside pressure and signaled the downtrend.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

In his hands, that old chop-socky cliché where a circle of ninjas challenges the hero one at a time becomes a sphere of ninjas simultaneously engulfing the hero from above and below.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

There wasn’t anyone in the field and, judging by the thick weeds engulfing the manioc plants, hadn’t been for a while.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer