How to Use engulf in a Sentence

engulf

verb
Definition of engulfnext
Synonyms for engulfnext
  • The valley was engulfed in a thick fog.
  • His size can be exploited at times, as bigger blockers can engulf him and knock him off his path.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Their latest surprise was Leatherwood, a savvy and stout blocker with the length to engulf defenders in the run game.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Roth remembers watching the flames engulf the house when her father, an amateur photographer, asked her to smile.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Here, tens of thousands of San Diegans are still out of work over a year after the pandemic first started to engulf our region.
    — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Though critics were given five of the six episodes for review, each episode is engulfed with information, characters and storylines.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
  • But what hasn’t changed is the undisputed success of worms and the multitude of fish species that will readily engulf them when properly presented.
    — Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 15 May 2021
  • Specifically, Martian dust storms regularly rock the planet and some can even engulf the entire world.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Surveillance footage released by police shows the suspect standing inside the dumpster, then smoke coming out of the dumpster before it’s engulfed in flames.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The price of maintaining the suburban illusion—an expanding bubble that threatens to engulf the rest of America—proves too high.
    — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The father of an intrepid youngster prepares her for the end of the world, when melting ice caps release fearsome beasts, called aurochs, and rising flood waters threaten to engulf their Delta home.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Last summer politicians were quick to assume that the coronavirus had been squashed, only for a second wave to engulf much of Europe and North America in the autumn.
    — The Economist, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The home was fully engulfed by flames, the charges said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
  • Since the turn of the 20th century, the area has been engulfed in rice fields.
    — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Most snakes cannot take bites and must engulf their prey whole.
    — Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
  • With the arena engulfed with noise, McGee missed the first free throw, but made the second.
    — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The green onions were confined to the middle, engulfed in fluffy bread that sprang back with the poke of a finger.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The stream showed him being engulfed by flames, the man told reporters.
    — Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2024
  • His wife, Rania, was engulfed with grief over the loss of a beloved sister.
    — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The officer then opened the door and the driver fell out of the truck onto the ground, one of his legs engulfed in flames.
    — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
  • The mood in Lebanon is tense, as people there wonder whether the country will be engulfed in the war.
    — Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The home, which was engulfed in flames, was next door to a local daycare, FOX 29 said.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The butterfly is only seen in the Sardis Unit ever since a fire engulfed the Stamm Unit of the refuge in 2007.
    — Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 5 May 2024
  • What if a raging fire then engulfed the 160-year-old building?
    — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Over the next two hours the wind picked up again, and every one of the rental units surrounding the pool became engulfed in flames.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Deputies and fire crews arrived to find the row of garages engulfed in flames, the department said in a news release.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Flames continued to engulf the attic and roof, and a third alarm was called at 12:40 p.m., the statement said.
    — Madison Mercado, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
  • In eastern Bihar, scorching heat has engulfed most of the state, leading to 42 deaths in the past two days.
    — Time, 18 June 2023
  • The year of fierce and brutal fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has engulfed the region, putting allies and enemies on high alert.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2024
  • More than 50 patients and staff were airlifted off the roof of Unicoi County Hospital in east Tennessee after it was engulfed by rising water at the height of the storm.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024

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