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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

Her hair was arranged in negligent fashion, and the soft folds of her morning gown to-day seemed to enwrap another woman and not the one whose beauty had intoxicated him.

From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Fritz Oswald Bilse

Kauffmant is to fill the child within and enwrap it without with the creative thoughts of health and joy.

From The Practice of Autosuggestion by Emile Coué

Thin misty clouds, white and shadowy, enwrap the fields and barren ghost-like trees and sweep across the distant hills.

From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess

With a roar and a rush our impi went at the waggon forts, spreading out in “horns” so as to enwrap the whole in a wall of living leaping men.

From The Induna's Wife by Bertram Mitford

“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

Then she was enwrapped in the same dark cloak herself, for the space of one warm, all-embracing hug, her friend repeating over and over, "I'm so happy to have you—so happy to have you."

From In a Mysterious Way by Anne Warner

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

She was feeling the peace that rested over the woods, the fields; that was enwrapping Old Place, and further down the dim road the low-eaved homestead that must thenceforth be home to her.

From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Jennie M. Drinkwater

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 Henry Eduard Legler

She stood as one paralysed, and up over face and neck and all her trembling body, enwrapping her like a flame, there rose a scorching, agonizing blush.

From Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell




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