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
Manchu China en compassed all of Mongolia, Korea and Taiwan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said 80-year-old Sir J. J. Thomson, famed discoverer of the electron, who once was Rutherford's teacher: ''His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sages who have compassed sea and land, Their secret to search out, and understand,— My mind misgives me if they ever solve The scheme on which this universe is planned.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
