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Delight in rituals that engage the senses, like slowly moving a mouthful of Champagne around your tongue, or lighting palo santo in the dark and letting its smoke envelop you.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

“I wasn’t a fragile, vulnerable creature onstage, begging the audience to protect me and envelop me,” she writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

This “deep-dive arctic wave” of weather is expected to envelop basically 50% of the U.S. — as many as 30 states, so it’s a big storm that’s not leaving soon, said Yawger.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026

Months after ICE’s widely publicized raids, fear continues to envelop Santa Ana, a majority-Hispanic city with a large immigrant population.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025

I asked my father as we watched the inferno envelop the bundles.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

One moment the music envelops us in a mysterious hush and then it is downright jaunty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

"The feeling of relief and happiness envelops us after 477 long and unbearable days of nerve-wracking waiting," her family said in a statement shortly after her return.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025

I love the sizzle of the hot, spiced ghee when it is poured into the lentils, the way that dal envelops a bowl of rice like a hug.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

For the polar bears of Manitoba, Canada, the sea ice that envelops western Hudson Bay for most of the year is the ideal hunting ground for a feast of blubber-rich seals.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 13, 2024

For the first time in my life, the glow of other people’s approval extends to, and envelops, me.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

The manager of US country music legend Dolly Parton dropped a civil lawsuit against the singer's nephew on Thursday, US media reported, after a row enveloped the late musician's estate.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

The 35-year-old volunteer firefighter has spent more than a month enveloped in this haze, breathing toxic millennia-old microparticles of carbon as he toils against a seemingly inextinguishable fire front.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

That’s one reason cybersecurity stocks like CrowdStrike have seen strong performance this year, bucking the selloff that’s enveloped many other software names.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Two women witness the strange murder of a neighbor and begin to believe that something could be lurking in the mist that’s enveloped the Earth.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

The shadows enveloped me, and I stopped and held my hand an inch in front of my face.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

It says the current crisis enveloping him, and the company he ran, is "a lesson in humility that investors were not expecting Huang to receive decades on" from his job in the kitchen.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Meanwhile, a spying scandal enveloping Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, who was once widely expected to accompany Trump to APEC, threatens to cast a pall on AI discussions.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

Such moments of barbed humor are infrequent in “Fatherland,” but Pawlikowski wields them like grenades, shattering the stifling niceties enveloping Thomas and Erika.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Weightier than any of that is the ever-more involuted mystery enveloping the real Elizabeth Short, whose murder has inspired fictionalized homages before De Palma’s movie and since, but has yet to be satisfactorily rendered onscreen.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Then I’m with Dad, his arm around me, the smell of fresh rain on the desert floor and rocks enveloping us.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera