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Example sentences for "encircles"

Lexicographically close words:
enchorial; encima; encircle; encircled; encirclement; encircling; enclave; enclaves; enclined; enclitic
  1. The hair should be black, and left to hang loose on the shoulders; a blue blanket trimmed with crimson fringe is gathered about the shoulders, and a black belt encircles the waist.

  2. The hair is arranged in a neat coil, and a small wreath of white leaves encircles the head.

  3. Her hair hangs loosely over her shoulders, and a black band encircles the head.

  4. A band of wide black velvet ribbon, ornamented with showy paste pins, encircles the waist, and a wreath of silver leaves adorns the head.

  5. The Goddess of Peace has on a long white dress, bound around the waist with a green ribbon; a wreath of dried grasses and wheat encircles the head.

  6. The sleeves are bound with gold and pink ribbon in alternate bands, three inches wide; a small scarf of white gauze, covered with spangles and fringed at the ends with gold, encircles the waist.

  7. The hair can be dressed to suit the performer's taste, while a wreath of myrtle and flowers encircles the head, at the back of which trails a long white veil.

  8. How oft she lays her little head upon his shoulder, encircles his neck with her fair arm, and braids his raven hair with her tiny fingers!

  9. Broadman, with an air of compassion, resting her shoulder against his bended knee as he encircles it with his left arm, and looks upon the pale features, tears glistening in his honest eyes.

  10. The northern constellation Draco, whose sinuosities wind like a river through the wintry bear, was made the astronomical cincture of the Universe, as the serpent encircles the mundane egg in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

  11. The twenty familiar day and year signs of the native calendar are carved on a band which encircles the central figure on the stone.

  12. The design which encircles the body of this vase has been engraved somewhat summarily with the wheel; we see a hound pursuing two hares--formal fern-like fronds rise between.

  13. Especially noticeable among these ornaments is the diadem which encircles the forehead and hangs down from each side in long pendants upon the shoulders.

  14. The head-ornaments of North Holland and Utrecht consist of a broad thin band of gold or silver which encircles the skull and terminates at each end with the above-mentioned spiral ornaments.

  15. Mohammed encircles Butheita with his arms, and bears her into his tent.

  16. Mohammed shakes his head slightly, and she feels the movement in her arm that encircles his head.

  17. He gently encircles her neck with his arm, and impresses a kiss on her forehead.

  18. Footnote 30: The great serpent that encircles the earth.

  19. But the monster has grown to such an enormous size that, holding his tail in his mouth, he encircles the whole earth.

  20. The head, neck, and breast of the adult male are black, and a narrow, but conspicuous, red ring encircles the neck.

  21. A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.

  22. Ring fence, a fence which encircles a large area, or a whole estate, within one inclosure.

  23. The moat, which still encircles the castle grounds, is spanned by a modern bridge with a turretted gatehouse of early 15th century work.

  24. III The Shadow of the Cross III The churchyard of our parish lies in a deep hollow, and a little river half encircles it.

  25. In ten thousand schools the State sanctions that its children be taught to pray--"Lead us not into temptation," and that same State encircles the path of its children by legalised temptations at every corner.

  26. A garland of white flowers encircles the head, and one of red, lavender, yellow, or other color is worn about the neck.

  27. Then we accuse Sapphira with her husband, We laud the hoof-beats Heliodorus had, And the whole mount in infamy encircles Polymnestor who murdered Polydorus.

  28. Fain wouldst thou know with what plants is enflowered This garland that encircles with delight The Lady fair who makes thee strong for heaven.

  29. Within a circle light and love embrace it, Even as this doth the others, and that precinct He who encircles it alone controls.

  30. It drives off on the wedding tour, and his arms encircles the yielding waist of her now all his own, while her head reclines on the breast of the man of her choice.

  31. A corona encircles the head, the ears are outlined (Fig.

  32. A neat pendant ornament is suspended upon the well-formed breast, and a broad belt encircles the waist, beneath which, covering the abdomen, is a design that suggests the scales of a coat of mail.

  33. A deep, sharply cut groove encircles the beak and hinge of the shell, and the posterior margins are considerably worn.

  34. The tide enters between the bridges, and encircles the middle compartment.

  35. The triforium is similar in plan to the part below; but the capitals of the columns are considerably more enriched, with an obvious imitation of the antique model, and every arch encircles two smaller ones.

  36. The crusta petrosa gives all the security that could be desired; it encircles these teeth, dips into their fissures, and fills their infundibula, forming no small part of the substance of the molars.

  37. This cartilage has the general shape of a signet ring and is so placed that the part corresponding to the signet fits into the thyroid space, while the ring portion encircles the larynx just below the thyroid.

  38. One set of fibers forms a thin band which encircles the pupil and serves as a sphincter to diminish the opening.

  39. In his hands he has a plantain, a circlet of beads, a flower, and a cup to which the end of his proboscis is applied: a hooded snake encircles his body diagonally over the left shoulder.

  40. That which encircles and which is like a husk, again becomes increased by means of the adherence of external bodies, and since it also moves within the vortex, it draws everything with which it comes in contact to itself.

  41. The native accounts say that the road encircles the mountains nine times, and that it takes seven days to make the ascent.

  42. There are just enough of them to make a foreground that is not unworthy of the rocky belt which encircles most of the picture, and to give a general idea of the grand geological formation of the whole region.

  43. The Cathedral of San Salvador is the strongest link in the chain that encircles the city of Avila,--"cuidad de Castilla la vieja.

  44. The fairy palace of the Alhambra, the Acropolis that once held forty thousand defenders of the faith, crowns and encircles the hill.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encircles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.