compassed
Example Sentences
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“Wild Swans” would seem to have laid bare every cruel irony of the volatile times it compassed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
The "great tracts of land" he imagines "compassed about with heavens fair" are not necessarily those of Eden.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2010
She compassed a weighty historical tome in 1922, after which fiction-writing seemed like child's play.
From Time Magazine Archive
These aims, it was judged, could be compassed in two years and the New York Board of Regents had been persuaded to issue an irregular* charter, for the first "junior college" in the state.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before Giles could touch her, or Lunt, who was coasting about the long table to come at Henrietta, had compassed half the distance--there was a knock at the door.
From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.
