Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for enlace. Search instead for geigenlack.
Definitions

enlace

[en-leys] / ɛnˈleɪs /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

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

I sail Between two banks, where heavy boughs enlace, Whose verdurous luxuriance wakes once more My many griefs.

From A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China by L. (Launcelot) Cranmer-Byng

"They enlace each other to the back of the garden," replies Pelleas.

From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell

So closely doth the ivy not enlace The tree where firmly rooted it doth stand, As clasp each other in their warm embrace These lovers, by each other's sweet breath fanned.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese

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

She had a sharp tongue and no patience for the giggles and enlaced arms of girlhood.

From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie

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

Trophies of blunderbusses, matchlocks, arquebuses, carbines, all sorts of ancient or modern firearms, were picturesquely enlaced against the walls.

From The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne

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

It was one of those moments when the accumulated impressions of life converge on heart and brain, elucidating, enlacing each other, in a mysterious confusion of beauty.

From The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

The sense of desperate tendrils enlacing him was almost suffocating, and each tendril craved for recognition; a lapse, a look, an inattention was the cutting of something that bled, and clung the closer.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Here Mrs Thorne sighed deeply, and began to strive to extricate herself from her child’s enlacing arms.

From The New Mistress A Tale by George Manville Fenn

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

From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch




Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training