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
He compassed a great coup with 317 second-hand bath-tubs, became a wholesale bargain man with a Long Island City warehouse, and his slogan was known to all the city: "Fippany for Any Old Thing".
From Time Magazine Archive
Manchu China en compassed all of Mongolia, Korea and Taiwan.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I can’t see faw the life of me, Mr. Bombs, just how you could have compassed all that,” Miss Drawling was saying, when something in the nature of a revelation cut short her sentence.
From The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury by Coolidge, Asenath Carver
