envelop
Example Sentences
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Their voices soared, cracked with grief, enveloping those gathered in a wave of pure emotion.
From BBC
This is hardly the first scandal to envelop a major college team, of course.
The harvest of that change was an inaugural meeting of the new panel that was enveloped in a miasma of confused, uninformed debate.
From Los Angeles Times
But in his own groups he is the rare drummer whose music draws you in with its subtlety rather than enveloping you with its power.
She yells, but another stream of water melts from the vents and envelops both her and Woo.
From Literature
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