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Example sentences for "encompassing"

Lexicographically close words:
encomiums; encompass; encompassed; encompasses; encompasseth; encontrar; encontre; encor; encore; encored
  1. And the natural drift of the human mind is ever towards this abstract conception--this one all-encompassing law of the universe.

  2. Nothing of them shall die but the encompassing death.

  3. That in which men walk is conceived of as an atmosphere encompassing them; or, without a metaphor, to walk in anything is to have the active life or conduct guided or occupied by it.

  4. So the two laws of conduct are, as it were, enclosed like a kernel in its shell, or a jewel in a gold setting, by encompassing motives.

  5. Let us learn to bow before that all-encompassing Providence in whose great scheme both are included.

  6. Martineau says that "all finite loves are only half-born, wandering in a poor twilight, unknowing of their peace and power, till they lie within the encompassing and glorifying love of God.

  7. Yet with it all he has learned the great truth that his restless longings, his all encompassing selfishness, only prove that earth is not his sphere, because he cannot so narrow himself but he exceeds it.

  8. That which indicates the might of omnipo- tence and the movements of God's spiritual government, encompassing all things.

  9. In other words, the supreme certainty brought home to us by the researches of modern science is that all creation is thrilled through by an all-encompassing Purpose.

  10. Once it is understood that God is really and truly in His universe, that He is not infinitely far {43} and inaccessible but infinitely nigh, an encompassing Presence, a fresh light falls upon nature and human nature alike.

  11. Without a universal living existence, there would be nothing but a wide, all-encompassing death.

  12. My heart was hammering against my breast as I watched the father and the brother, with the swaying camel, disappear under the archway of a building sheltered by the encompassing wall of the fortress.

  13. Although I knew well that the jealously watchful eyes of her lord were upon me, I made no hesitancy in encompassing the wrist with my own fingers.

  14. About thee with an encompassing sugar-cane have I gone, in order to absence of mutual hatred; that thou mayest be one loving me, that thou mayest be one not going away from me!

  15. Never had he seen her looking so beautiful, with her black hair encompassing her pure face, which in the sunshine appeared pinky and delicate as a flower.

  16. The houses encompassing it are very lofty, and, at each successive story, have wide projecting galleries, wherein dwell the lowest classes of Granada's inhabitants.

  17. How long it had been shunned by him he realised when he noticed the increased decay of the walls and the growth of the verdure encompassing the abominable place!

  18. I saw the western man with race-dust on his cheeks, or throned in the power-houses of the world, moving upon iron platforms and straight ladders in the mid throb and tumult of encompassing engines.

  19. I lay fallow beneath the still, sunlit waters, unharrowed by teasing points of doubt, and porous to the influence of an all-encompassing peace.

  20. Yet was this love as deep and encompassing as her impulse towards the other man?

  21. Just why he should feel so he could not quite explain to himself, yet he felt despite all that she had said it would send her further from him than she was now, with the feeling of encompassing loneliness.

  22. An ability to attack enemy information systems will also be critical, encompassing system technologies from laser-based counter sensor weapons to embedded computer viruses, commonly referred to as Trojan Horses.

  23. They will be effective in the future, even when applied in limited ways that do not reflect the more encompassing impact envisioned by Rapid Dominance.

  24. The father's will is felt deliciously encompassing him about; enclosed within it, his own will works, glad and free in its fortifying obedience.

  25. But, as a matter of fact, the personal spirit of man strikes its roots far and deep into the encompassing frame of sense, with which, from the first moment of its existence, it has been so intimately associated.

  26. Caesar, when his fleet had been made ready and spring set in, started from Baise and coasted along Italy, having great hopes of encompassing Sicily on all sides.

  27. Even I blow like the wind, encompassing all creatures.

  28. In this way they damaged the wall and unintentionally burned down the barrier encompassing their sacred precinct.

  29. After a time the Romans managed to scale the outside circle, and, pitching their camps between the two encompassing lines of fortification, assaulted the second wall.

  30. Is this encompassing calm mere apathy, or is it conscious strength?

  31. I did not venture inside the wrought-iron gate, for the encompassing veneration for property rights is strong upon me; not in the British Isles shall I be caught trespassing!

  32. And when that distance was about 1-3/16 of an Inch, the white Spot was become a Ring encompassing a dark round Spot which in the middle inclined to violet and indigo.

  33. I am told that the Moon has sometimes three or more concentrick Crowns of Colours encompassing one another next about her Body.

  34. Encompassing the mighty-armed Vrikodara, on all sides, they shrouded all the points of the compass with their shafts looking like flights of locusts.

  35. Encompassing that warrior there with throngs of cars, O sire, they cheerfully began to pierce him with their shafts, desiring to protect the Wind-god's son in that battle.

  36. The troops that stood around then encompassed Yudhishthira, like the celestials encompassing Purandara for the slaughter of Vritra.

  37. Sakuni, meanwhile, O king, encompassing Arjuna on all sides with many thousands of cars and several thousands of elephants, and many thousands of steeds, began to fight desperately.

  38. Those leaders of divisions, encompassing the grandson of Sini on all sides in that battle, began to strike him.

  39. Encompassing him on all sides, O sire, with a large body of cars they shot at him showers of diverse kinds of arrows.

  40. Hemming him, O sire, on all sides by means of numberless cars, they shrouded him from every side with shafts, like men in a forest encompassing an elephant with blazing brands.

  41. Loud and fierce were the yells they uttered as they rushed towards Drona for encompassing him on all sides and were slaughtered by him with shafts and darts.

  42. In that impervious wall of Kauravas around the grandson of Sini, these also stationed themselves, encompassing him.

  43. Staying on his elephant amid car-warriors encompassing him all around, he looked resplendent like a blazing fire on a mountain-top in the midst of a dense forest.

  44. She was conscious of neither the blow nor the shaking, but only of a devastating nausea and an all-encompassing weakness.

  45. She felt only an inchoate horror and a vague but all-encompassing fear, and her head was aching from the blows he had dealt her.


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