surrounding

Example Sentences

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Equipment is everywhere, and the site is so busy that it has created traffic on the surrounding roads, a Wall Street Journal reporter who visited the site in March observed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

County analysts noted that, based on this annual data for 11th grade, nearly all the surrounding schools improved more than Locke in the last three years.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

When they escape from their captor, Jack is overwhelmed by the vastness and unfamiliarity of the milieu surrounding him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

This would "enable the restoration of an historic lost orchard along the Ridgeway corridor" and "enable the planting and maintenance of a thousand new trees surrounding and connecting the orchard habitat", the statement said.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

But this was no theater, and surrounding me was not the well-groomed and washed crowd that had attended that infamous production of Our American Cousin.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin