How to Use encircle in a Sentence

encircle

verb
Definition of encirclenext
Synonyms for encirclenext
  • A crowd of reporters encircled the mayor.
  • Dust storms are common on Mars, but planet-encircling storms are more rare.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Their island home is encircled closely by the modern world.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020
  • The band acclimated to the new setting with aplomb as glowing phones encircled them.
    — Morena Duwe, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The Tibetan word for a mandala is Kyilkor which means that which encircles a center.
    — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Nov. 2019
  • So much of his history was attended by the gothic and the tragic, encircled by it, pursued by it.
    — Christopher Benfey, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • For all the horrors in the book, there’s a profound feeling of a community encircling the central characters.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • On Tuesday, special forces troops were observed encircling the parliament building and army helicopters were hovering over it.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Roche, for decades the Met’s master planner and resident architect, answered all that excess by encircling the complex with severe walls of glass and blocks of concrete.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Shortly after the shooting, most of the crowd observing the chaos retreated inside the two-story rowhouses encircling the scene, where officers worked to find shell casings.
    — Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The prison, located in the north central part of the state, is set at the base of a mountain and encircled by farmlands, feed mills and the upper branch of the Susquehanna River.
    — Jill McCorkel, The Conversation, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Cyber threats have unlimited range, adversary satellites encircle us day and night, and drones are fundamentally changing how war is conducted.
    — Todd Harrison, TIME, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Stepping inside was like stepping into a hearth: The upholstery, the carpet, the rounded walls were the same deep, burnt orange; the dark wood of the encircling galleries created a sense of weight.
    — Elizabeth Nonemaker, baltimoresun.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The Guards immediately encircled the men and responded with machine gun fire, killing as many as 100 people, the residents said.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The elastic bands of the sheet should now be encircling your hand.
    — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Two feet of wire then form the fence and 2 feet lie on the ground, encircling your garden.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • The encircling orangerie brings the outside in through the seasons, with trees in zinc planters.
    — Howard Christian, ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
  • And then encircle the plant with a small soil berm to hold water in the future.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Her blue eyes shone from her taut face, all encircled by a bird’s nest of frizzy gray hair.
    — Elizabeth M. Lynch, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024
  • The over 90-mile pathway encircles the city, passing through over a dozen parks.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2024
  • With the boat and turtle aligned, Benson managed to encircle him with the hoop and enclose him in the net.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The lake has a boat ramp on the north side, and the road encircles the water, granting access to the entire shoreline.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 11 June 2024
  • The gravest risk for Ukrainian forces is that they would be encircled, trapped and killed in large numbers.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The gravest risk for Ukrainian forces is that they would be encircled, trapped, and killed in large numbers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Rimawi’s desk occupies the back corner of the room, and a ring of chairs encircles it.
    — Ismail Ibrahim, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Watch for the new badge — which frees Buick’s three heraldic shields from the chrome band that used to encircle them on upcoming Buicks.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2023
  • That means the roots grow up into the mulch and encircle the tree, rather than out into the surrounding soil.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Russian forces are entrenched on the eastern edge of the city and are seeking to encircle it.
    — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The two of them share a lagoon and are encircled by one barrier reef.
    — Maggie Shipstead, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the nation saw a total solar eclipse, when the moon is encircled by a ring of light, or a corona, from the sun.
    — The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2024

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