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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

When it will enwrap me, I know not.

From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Richard Short

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

Now, not only are they closed in silence, but a horror seems to enwrap all creation.

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

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 Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield

“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 few passengers and railway servants that were to be seen upon the platform were all enwrapped in mufflers and overcoats.

From Submarine U93 by Charles Gilson

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 noises of the ball-room broke in on her wondering—voices, shouting, and laughter; the little cries of girls and the heavy exclamations of men, the music enwrapping them....

From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard

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

But the heavy atmosphere remained, enwrapping the place in a sweltering, mist-like shroud, through which the blinded rays of the sun fell sullenly in a stifling glare.

From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Ernest G. Henham




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