enveloping

Example Sentences

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AFP journalists who traveled to the landfill site by boat saw billows of thick, gray smoke completely enveloping houses on Salambao -- one of the islands from which people were evacuated.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

There’s an intimate breadth to the warp, woof and weave of “Pompei: Below the Clouds,” which is masterfully edited by Fabrizio Federico and boasts an enveloping score by “The Brutalist” Oscar winner Daniel Blumberg.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Their voices soared, cracked with grief, enveloping those gathered in a wave of pure emotion.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

Ms. Mumenthaler has constructed her character study with subtly expressionistic imagination, deploying an enveloping, finely tuned sound design and finding a transporting musical motif in Holst’s “The Planets.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

The dream was still vivid in his mind, especially the enveloping, protecting gesture of the arm in which its whole meaning seemed to be contained.

From "1984" by George Orwell