Indeed, the scrupulous duties were her one frail barrier against the black sea of engulfing thought.
So lying, all the blackness of the past and future surging over her, engulfing her, she heard outside the sound of a horse's hoofs on the wet gravel.
As the world seemed to draw further and further away from them, these two beings, strange to the vastness engulfing them, huddled closer together.
Certainly the constraint between them thickened and deepened in step with the engulfing night; they could not see each other's faces, they could not glimpse each other's souls.
At intervals, showers swept downward, engulfing the valley with torrents of rain.
Then the forest swallowed them--a vast, white, engulfingworld of silence and mystery.
He was conscious of a single agonizing pain, like a hot iron thrust suddenly through him, and then a great and engulfing pit of darkness closed about him.
She walked along the streets, feeling nothing but her homelessness and that dizziness in her head which was engulfing all her thoughts.
The dark shadows at the farther end of the room trembled as though engulfing it all.
The heat of the tubes was engulfing him in waves, raising little blisters on the unprotected skin.
Hilary heard the shouted orders of the Mercutians Cors, the crashing forward of a mighty host, and then the front of the attack burst out of the trees in an engulfing flood of gigantic unwieldy bodies and gray warty faces.
It had learned all the lessons of endurance and defence in the engulfing mud of Flanders, in the holding of shattered trenches against unrelenting shell-fire and obstinate assault.
Around the platform surges the snarling sea as if impatiently awaiting Krishna's death before engulfing the doomed Dwarka.
As they leave, the ocean comes up, swallowing the city and engulfing everything except the temple.
At the railroad bridge the house parted in the middle, and the cries of the unfortunate people were smothered in the engulfing waters.
There has been a new emphasis upon the rights of personality, as against the enmeshing and enchaining forces of nature on the one hand and an all-engulfing Absolute on the other.
The life of man, entangled by descent with lower orders of being, seemed divorced from the wisdom and purpose of God, and an all-engulfing mechanism threatened to swallow up the hopes and aspirations of mankind.
But for that he could never have lost his way in the streets of his native city, never have stepped from solid ground into the engulfing water.
The cry had come to the mother's inward ear in the moment when her boy went plunging down into the engulfing river and heart and thought turned in his mortal agony to the one nearest and dearest in all the earth.
Then it was that Eppie had been swept away by the engulfing relative.
She was not surprised, yet a feeling of engulfing horror came over her at the sound.
She held her face high as if the waters were engulfing her.
Scarcely had the last man gained the higher ground than the wall of water thundered down the riverbed, engulfing everything in its path.
A wall of water, four feet high and crested with foam came rushing down the river bed with incredible swiftness, engulfing everything within its reach.
As Manny Jackson grappled for the collective, blinded by the intense monochromatic light engulfing him, a clap of thunder sounded about his ears, deafening him to the roar of the Apache's turboshafts.
A beam of energy, so strong it ionized the air and turned it deep mauve, seemed to be engulfing Michael.
Then a blaze of 57mm rockets poured in, engulfing the communications gear and antennas.
He gasped for breath, blinded by the flash grenade but still trying to see through the billowing CS that was engulfing everything.
Its puny light flared and then expired, almost helpless against the blackness engulfing him.
Yet another storm had blown up from the Aegean, engulfing the coast and even the mountains.
The hollows were already hidden deep in gloom, and a line of cloud, like a stream of ink, rose upon the horizon, engulfing the last streaks of daylight, the wavering gleams which were retreating towards the west.
A terrible weariness deprived her limbs of their strength as she lingered there, face to face with the engulfing of Paris.
You are not aware of his presence until he disengages himself from the engulfing grays and browns of the stalk-strewn ground or dusty roadside, and mounts a fence-post to rhyme the coming or the parting day.
Near the close of a burning day in the desert, we drew near to a little ranch where a bravery of green, supported by a windmill and a tiny trickle of water, defied the engulfing waste of sand and sage.
Only little by little had she fought back the engulfing oblivion.
A famous painting represents him, with his little son and the castaway crew, huddling among the engulfing icebergs.
What did it matter what they said or did here in this engulfing quiet?
But the dread reminder was still above, hurling its black engulfing storm across the bombardment of a million lights, that painted it with a strange red glare, but could not destroy its menace.
The volcano whose ancient crater for more than fifty years had been occupied by a quiet lake in which picnic parties bathed, discharged a torrent of fiery mud, which rolled toward the sea, engulfing everything before it.
Within about twelve miles of Gifu, a subsidence on a vast scale took place, engulfing a whole range of hills, while over lesser areas the soil in many places slipped down, carrying with it dwellings and their inmates.
The truth seemed to pour upon him like the waters of an all-engulfing wave--the overwhelming, wonderful truth that was also almost terrible, in what it might mean to them both.
The man in the quicksand continued to yell, to struggle hopelessly, to sink in that shivering pool of life-engulfing stuff.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "engulfing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
