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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

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

A Tunicated or Coated Bulb is one in which the scales enwrap each other, forming concentric coats or layers, as in Hyacinth and Onion.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

Kauffmant is to fill the child within and enwrap it without with the creative thoughts of health and joy.

From The Practice of Autosuggestion by Emile Coué

The flaming candlewood licked the resinous logs, and soon the smoke and flames began to enwrap the corpse.

From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

“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 arms of the Welsh family of Vaughan are ‘a cheveron between three children’s heads ... enwrapped about the necks with as many snakes proper.’

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

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

Twice, working warily with machetes, and holding their flame weapons ready, they chopped armored mummies from enwrapping tendrils, while little eye cells glinted at them balefully, and other tendrils bent slowly toward them.

From The Planet Strappers by Raymond Z. Gallun

Corot painted at Ville d'Avray; what he painted was God's twilight or dawn enwrapping tree and pool.

From The Enjoyment of Art by Carleton Eldredge Noyes

Into the woof of delusion which he continued to weave, for enwrapping his own judgment, such reasoner omitted wholly to cross the warp of combined result.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon




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