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Example sentences for "encircling"

Lexicographically close words:
encima; encircle; encircled; encirclement; encircles; enclave; enclaves; enclined; enclitic; enclose
  1. Two souls stand side by side for a moment on the same platform, with the same divine goodness and love encircling them, and the one steadily rises, while the other steadily sinks.

  2. A blissful home the little house became to the children who entered it that quiet evening and slept for the first time lulled by the murmur of the encircling sea.

  3. We know not whether those speak truly who declare that Miolnir struck off its head at the bottom of the sea, or whether it still lies encircling the earth.

  4. Especially did he recall his feat of lifting the Midgard serpent; and the remembrance of his incredible exploit fired him with a resolution to match himself once more against this monstrous world-encircling progeny of Loki.

  5. Here are the walls, encircling the whole city, that were built by Edward I.

  6. In all these things, whilst weltering amongst them, whilst ringed round about by them, as by encircling enemies, "we are more than conquerors.

  7. Terrified by this picture of what had happened, Mrs. Quayle involuntarily clutched the jewels encircling her neck as if to protect them from some invisible brigand.

  8. Her dark beauty, flashing eye, quivering nostril, needed not the emerald diadem of the ancient Chibchas encircling her brow to proclaim her royal lineage.

  9. That high rank belonged to her by right was suggested by a gold coronet encircling her head.

  10. On her head she wore a widow's cap, with large crown, thick frill, and black ribbon encircling it between them.

  11. It undulated in the moonlight like a subsiding storm, and beat the encircling banks.

  12. A boy was asleep in the portico when a flame was seen encircling his little head, and the attendants were about to throw water upon it, when the queen interfered, forbidding the boy to be disturbed.

  13. The conformation of the hills encircling the plain would be likely to lead any shower astray, and discharge it into the sea, with whatever good intentions it may have started down the promontory for Sorrento.

  14. Instantly the Indians formed two lines straight up and down from the white prisoner to their chief, and then Black Arrow walked slowly forward and gazed intently at the curious signs encircling the white man’s waist.

  15. The tasks facing this community in the course of this second and future phases of a world-encircling Crusade are admittedly vast, complex and challenging.

  16. Through the lovely rounded arches of this encircling colonnade, which is elevated a few feet, one looks down into the beauty of the court, or out across it to the richly fretted walls.

  17. The frieze in low relief, encircling the bases of the columns and representing the genii of mechanics, is repeated from the larger entrance, as are also the figures in the spandrels, typifying the application of power to machinery.

  18. Court of Flowers Portal of Varied Industries In the Court of Flowers, the colonnade encircling the entire length of its oval is bordered by Corinthian columns arranged in pairs.

  19. What produces the narrow belt of inter-tropical rains, encircling the earth; traveling up and down every year over an average of 35 deg.

  20. The belt of rains which supplies California with moisture during her rainy seasons is the belt of extra-tropical rains, which extends from the northern limit of the north-east trades to the poles, encircling the earth.

  21. All currents of electricity have encircling currents of magnetism, and all deflect the magnetic needle.

  22. Now, before the encircling horns of the pack closed round, one of the pack-horses, maddened with fear, had stampeded and got clear away.

  23. Therefore I do not know exactly how long that wolverine was encircling that scent, and pinning it down to a certain spot--himself unseen.

  24. The sun must have set while we were encircling my pool.

  25. Captains Moylan and Godfrey were badly wounded, and in fact a great part of the line encircling the camp was dotted with dead and wounded soldiers and horses.

  26. He leaped from his horse, and in a moment his axe and the stranger's sword were clashing fiercely together and sending showers of sparks into the encircling gloom.

  27. Below, a long, low building with a lighted window here and there, surrounded by a heavy growth of trees which are but the earnest of the illimitable stretch of the Adirondack woods which painted darkness on the encircling horizon.

  28. A closer pressure of the head, a more vehement clasp of the encircling arms, but no words.

  29. It was circular in shape, and the band encircling the stone was inscribed with the motto, "Esse quam videri.

  30. Such was the invitation addressed to Paul by Barbara, whose arms were encircling his neck as with a garland; her lovely face was close to his; her dark eyes radiant with love were looking into his own.

  31. Look, too, where she would she could not escape the eyes of encircling masculinity.

  32. Before him, but partially revealed by the illumination, sat the girl upon her horse, her head turned to him with an expression emphasized by the encircling gloom.

  33. A man's face detached itself from the encircling throng, catching and holding Carter's attention.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encircling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    about; ambient; around; circling; circumferential; counting; covering; embracing; encircling; enclosing; including; inclusive; neighboring; numbering; peripheral; round; roundabout; suburban; surrounding; wrapping