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George’s cluckingly affectionate aunt wants to enfold Hedda in a tradition that would consign her to the role of wife and mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

Little did I know this decision would nearly get me arrested, set me on a path across two coasts, instigate community programming, and enfold kindred spirits near and far.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

When you see the power of love and people reaching out from their own pain, how that can really surround you and enfold you and help you.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2023

At one point Ms. Price recalls being entombed when the pyramid that was supposed to enfold her at the end of a scene got stuck in rehearsal.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2017

Relatively large amounts are deposited in the liver, kidneys, and the fat of the large, protective mesenteries that enfold the intestines.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Cynthia puts her hands out to clasp mine and then enfolds me in her arms.

From BBC ● May 25, 2024

What singles Billi out, though, is the aura of loss and loneliness that enfolds her, even before she hears of her grandmother’s illness, and credit for that must go to Awkwafina.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 12, 2019

Author and illustrator Oge Mora’s collage art enfolds her characters in warm, inviting colors.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2019

She’s consumed with thoughts of the baby boy she lost just months earlier, music that enfolds fragile vocal lines in subdued, trembling orchestral harmonies.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2016

But Mama’s sweetness enfolds him and coaxes him back.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Harplike plinks and clicking percussion rise around her voice, enfolded in instrumental and vocal harmonies as she sings that “portals open as you slowly drift through/surrounded by our love.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

One wishes the film better enfolded Indigenous culture within the narrative: While we do see a few hints, what’s given is not enough.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

He set them down on the tiled floor, opened the door of one, reached inside with a dark towel, and enfolded what was inside.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2022

Tucker Carlson burst through the doors of Charlie Palmer Steak, enfolded in an entourage of producers and assistants, cellphone pressed to his ear.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2022

The blackness of the night and the chilled mist struck him and enfolded him.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

Essential to a wilderness is its capacity to bewilder, and though certain of Church’s colleagues in the Hudson River group, notably Worthington Whittredge, brilliantly captured this dense, enfolding quality, Church seldom did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

But the bigger challenge is that Green is enfolding stories within stories that have an associative yet indirect connection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

You are met with a soothing electronic soundscape enfolding Parker’s understated, post-Grant Green guitar.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

Amid their taut geometries are passages of enfolding softness and effulgent color harmonies — rich reds, pale yellows and blues against his favorite milky lime green.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019

The feeling of dread passed, but the enfolding silence was broken.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien