envelop
Example Sentences
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If the cameras and heat sensors around the house detect danger, the system can envelop the home in over 1,000 gallons of fire retardant and hundreds of gallons of fire-suppressing foam.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 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
This is hardly the first scandal to envelop a major college team, of course.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025
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
He had first expressed an interest in setting the poem to music when he was in his early twenties, before the full weight of the Napoleonic Wars began to envelop Europe.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing envelop
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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