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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

Another's breath seemed to enwrap the place with feeling.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

As the ghost disappears the instruments are weighted with that great and gloomy theme of revenge which seems to descend and enwrap the whole scene like a dark, heavy mist.

From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls

This has a white flower and the leaves almost enwrap the stem.

From Tobacco Leaves Being a Book of Facts for Smokers by W. A. Brennan

To many who walked homeward that evening it seemed in that benediction to enwrap the centuries of history they had so feverishly been celebrating, and to fold them softly away as a garment.

From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

“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

The young woman was enwrapped in this precious fleece.

From Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite by Pierre Lou?s

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

Sepals 3; the 2 lateral glume-like, boat-shaped or keeled and persistent; the anterior one larger and membranaceous, enwrapping the corolla in the bud and deciduous with it.

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 Asa Gray

Then he settled himself to rest and neither of them knew distinctly anything more until the daylight came and the sunshine struggled with the enwrapping fog.

From Dorothy's Travels by S. Schneider

Everywhere near was the desert of basalt, with nothing but the faint trail to point the way and the night slowly enwrapping us.

From A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh




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