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enwrap

[en-rap] / ɛnˈræp /


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Often, she coos the most extravagant slang that can be found for her tissue-paper tongue to enwrap.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had been used, I thought, to enwrap the flagons and cups.

From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler

A Tunicated or Coated Bulb is one in which the scales enwrap each other, forming concentric coats or layers, as in Hyacinth and Onion.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

By its aid, we form the last covering which is to enwrap the body of a departed loved one, and prepare those sable habiliments, which custom has adopted as the external signs of mourning.

From The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet by Anonymous

Darker and darker the cloud settles over his spirit; denser and still more dense the fogs of helpless ignorance and perplexity enwrap his intelligence.

From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Jennings, Frederick Charles

“The danger was it being so low to the ground, in many cases, that you’d be so enwrapped in the composition of the photograph that you would stall the plane and get in an accident.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

The weather conditions were hardly San Diego-like when Clevinger, nicknamed “Sunshine,” finally took the mound as low-hanging clouds enwrapped Progressive Field during the early innings.

From Seattle Times May 4, 2022

I was so enwrapped in the earnest endeavor I forgot, “This must be served with very hard or very silly jokes.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2019

“The ships were enwrapped in a torrent of fire” and “presented one of the most sublime and magnificent spectacles which can be imagined.”

From Washington Post Jun. 24, 2019

Punctually at nine of the night he takes up a paper left on his desk by his padrone, in which is enwrapped ten dollars—the golden eagle, and he departs for that day.

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert

They’re some kind of selfie heaven, as are the enwrapping and enrapturing video works in “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest”* at the New Museum, starting Oct.

From New York Times Sep. 16, 2016

Almost every nation and faith and ethnicity has a terrible enwrapping tale to tell about its persecution.

From The New Yorker Nov. 20, 2015

The cycles, with their long shadows, have stalked silently forward Since those days—many a pouch enwrapping meanwhile Its fee, like that paid for the son of Mary.

From Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today by Legler, Henry Eduard

Into the woof of delusion which he continued to weave, for enwrapping his own judgment, such reasoner omitted wholly to cross the warp of combined result.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.

Spikelets terete or flattish; scales convex, either loosely enwrapping or regularly imbricated.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa




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