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Example sentences for "surrounds"

Lexicographically close words:
surround; surrounded; surroundeth; surrounding; surroundings; sursum; surtax; surtout; suru; suruey
  1. The backgrounds are diapered red or blue, and a crude border of architecture surrounds each.

  2. The one ocean of ignorance surrounds and over floods the world, as the single salt sea girds and washes the whole island; and the distinctions of ego and tu etc.

  3. It is the dense essence of the Divinity that pervades the whole universe, as it is this circumambient ocean which surrounds all the continents of the earth.

  4. The great Brahma that is without beginning and end, underlies them all, as the great ocean surrounds the earth (and supplies its moisture to every thing upon it).

  5. Yes," Margaret continued, "I see a big black cloud, and it entirely surrounds you.

  6. I see a big black cloud, and it entirely surrounds you.

  7. Now supposing, nay even admitting, that the hands of spirits are exhibited at these seances, does it not really seem to be impossible to believe that they are made out of the air that surrounds the persons who surround the table!

  8. As the Ecuadorian sees all the constellations of the firmament, so Nature surrounds him with representatives of every family of plants.

  9. The outer wall which surrounds the whole is very thick, and the entire building is built of mud bricks baked in the sun, and has no upper storey at all.

  10. The border that surrounds the finely-wrought plate is very slight but decorative and thoughtful.

  11. A gleaming halo surrounds his head, and the background is massed with seething indistinct figures.

  12. He stands firmly on a coil of Leviathan's body, which rearing and circling surrounds him like a frame.

  13. It seems as if from the atmosphere of mental beauty that surrounds them, every human being caught a splendor not his own.

  14. In the dreadful silence which surrounds them, their illusions turn into convictions--the haunting voices are heard; the forms are seen.

  15. On clambering over the wall which surrounds my host's kraal of dwellings, I heard in the dusk strange sweet voices crying rudely and emphatically, "Who are you?

  16. Their clusters of nuts in all stages of growth are yellow, their fan-like leaves, which are from twelve to twenty feet long, are yellow, and an amber light pervades and surrounds them.

  17. As soon as the net surrounds a shoal, the dog is put in the centre, and by beating the water with his paws he effectually drives the finny creatures into the meshes.

  18. In the centre is the band-stand, and a bed of roses surrounds it.

  19. Paris, and famous for a château or palace of the kings of France, and the forest that surrounds it.

  20. In an old graveyard at the corner of Fifth and Arch, a section of iron railing in the stone wall which surrounds it permits the passer to view the plain marble slab which covers the remains of Franklin and his wife.

  21. The handsome iron paling which now surrounds the historic area has long since taken the place of the ancient fence.

  22. In the graveyard which surrounds it are found the dead of nearly two centuries ago, some of the slate-stones over the older graves having been imported from the mother country.

  23. Chandler thought he had discovered this tomb near the village which surrounds the castle of Europe.

  24. Amanus descends from the mass of Taurus, and surrounds the Gulf of Issus.

  25. The Cilicians, commanded by Eetion, occupied the territory which surrounds the present Gulf of Adramytti.

  26. The sea surrounds the mountain on the south and west; towards the east the plain of Caïcus lies below, and on the north the Elaïtic district.

  27. But quantity hinders substance from movement and action, because it surrounds it and penetrates it: just as a cloud hinders the air from receiving light.

  28. Seven of them form the spacious shell that surrounds the brain, in which we distinguish the solid ventral base below and the curved dorsal vault above.

  29. The mantle or cloaca-cavity (the atrium) that surrounds the gill-crate is also formed in the same way in the Ascidia as in the Amphioxus.

  30. Inside the membrane that surrounds the ovum, the stem-cell of the Ascidia, after fecundation, passes through just the same metamorphoses as the stem-cell of the Amphioxus.

  31. It is when observing, in all its phases, the life that surrounds us, that we can gain an approximate idea of the possibilities of the Far East.

  32. Everything that meets my eye is new, that which surrounds me is unintelligible, almost mysterious.

  33. But this young man, who has recently finished his studies, is just as commonplace and just as debauched as her husband and the society which surrounds her.

  34. He is attracted by something invisible, something distant and strange, to the repugnant world which surrounds him.

  35. Internal place indeed differs in no way from space; but external place may be taken for the superficies that immediately surrounds the thing placed.

  36. At times a reddish areola surrounds each lesion, especially those appearing upon the trunk.

  37. This form of inflammation is met with in those organs which present a sharply-defined contrast between the functionally important cells and the connective tissue which surrounds them.

  38. The patient, nearly naked, is placed in a chair with the apparatus underneath, and is covered by a blanket, so that the steam surrounds the body.

  39. There is a dignity and charm that surrounds every room in this house, telling of the days when honest labor gave thorough workmanship.

  40. It is situated far back from the main road, a terraced lawn reaching down to a colonial fence that surrounds the entire estate.

  41. A settled air of old age surrounds it, and without doubt it will last as it is for centuries.

  42. The figures of Christ and Judas are both grand in their respective ways, and stand out vividly from the crowd that surrounds them.

  43. To these have been added by later discoveries the Pacific Ocean, commonly called the Great South Sea, between America and Asia; and the Antarctic Icy Ocean which surrounds the South Pole.

  44. The Ocean, is that general collection of water which surrounds the whole earth.

  45. The parallax of the nearest star is only one second, the whole lenticular mass of light which surrounds our sun would therefore only subtend an angle of a single second at the nearest fixed star.

  46. Its moat surrounds three islands, from which, as if from the water, rise its walls and towers.

  47. An extensive park surrounds the mansion, and there are several entrances.

  48. Jack Cade, but so much mystery surrounds all reports of him that some do not hesitate to declare Robin Hood a myth.

  49. Teddington Lock is the last upon the Thames, and a mile below is Eel-Pie Island, lying off Twickenham, renowned for the romance that surrounds its ancient ferry.

  50. The present building is about three hundred years old, and quaint gardens adjoin it, while quite an extensive park surrounds the college.


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