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enlace

[en-lays] / ɛnˈleɪs /


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Among the many tattoos that enlace her limbs is one of the Bataclan, on her left forearm.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2021

Three minutes into the conversation with the Matamoros editor, the senior editor began raising his voice about the enlace.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2015

Suddenly the detested plants had disappeared and two arms sought to enlace him.

From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

A very large sperm whale was locked in deadly conflict with a cuttle-fish or squid, almost as large as himself, whose interminable tentacles seemed to enlace the whole of his great body.

From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen

Do you, within your little hour of Grace, The waving Cypress in your Arms enlace, Before the Mother back into her arms Fold, and dissolve you in a last embrace.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

They came from a world enlaced with traditional forms, in which the idea of an avant-garde was barely conceivable and the notion of radical renewal seemed like cultural parricide.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this moment, as if to confirm Sir Grummore’s opinion, a pair of enlaced figures sauntered along the diff road.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The phantoms three enlaced The trembling baron round; He vainly shrieked,—the walls With demon laughs resound; The echoing thunders rolled Along the valley deep; Lightnings, when pale dawn broke, Blasted the castle keep.

From Brittany & Its Byways by Mrs. Bury Palliser

He enlaced her fingers in his, and for the first time, in a low voice, he called her Hyacinthe.

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace

Many turned to look at the two friends, as enlaced they wandered across the 'gravel' on their way to change out of flannels, Michael nut-brown and Alan rose-bloomed like a peach.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

The subject of both literary arts, for Maxwell, is the enlacing of human passions in the web of relationships, rules, habits and prejudices that make up what is called society.

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2021

Storm, wind, and rain had vanished like the flying phantoms of an evil dream, and all the beautiful land sparkled with light and life in its enlacing girdle of turquoise blue sea.

From Temporal Power by Marie Corelli

Fixing her hinder claws in the meshes of the wire gauze the mother drags her burden towards her; then, enlacing it with her legs, she holds it suspended.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall

For she walks—she our Lady, our Mistress of Wedlock—the woodlands atween,     5 And the bride-bed she weaves them, with myrtle enlacing, with curtains of green.

From The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

There is no end and no release; it is our destiny to live; the darkness is all about us, but we are the light, enlacing it with struggling beams, piercing it with fiery spears.

From Escape, and Other Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson


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