How To Use Encircle In A Sentence

  • The length should be that of the bandaging; the breadth, three or four fingers; thickness, three or fourfold; number so as to encircle the limb, neither more nor less; those applied for the purpose of rectifying a deformity, should be of such a length as to encircle it; the breadth and thickness being determined by the vacuity, which is not to be filled up at once. On The Surgery
  • I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein 
  • The small piece of gold glittered brightly in the moonlight, setting off the red ruby it encircled.
  • a dolmen, since all tombs containing clay effigies or encircled by terracotta haniwa would necessarily be subsequent to that date, and all tombs containing skeletons other than the occupants of the sarcophagi would be referable to an earlier era. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
  • When lovers lie on a bed, and embrace each other so closely that the arms and thighs of the one are encircled by the arms and thighs of the other, and are, as it were, rubbing up against them, this is called an embrace like 'the mixture of sesamum seed with rice'. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
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  • If a child was doing it, it could encircle and strangulate part of the body and that would interfere with the blood supply.
  • Each seed is encircled by a long red, yellow or orange funicle. Chapter 41
  • There are magnificent avenues of elm-trees, great gardens encircled by the moat, and a circumference of walls about a huge manorial pile which represents the profits of the maltote, the gains of farmers-general, legalized malversation, or the vast fortunes of great houses now brought low beneath the hammer of the Civil Code. A Woman of Thirty
  • A golden torque encircled his neck, tawdry-jeweled rings his fingers, a spiral of herpetoid skin the left arm. The Day of Their Return
  • The house is encircled by a high fence.
  • From her pedestal descend branches of gold, which also encircle the hawsehole.
  • The company commander ordered a withdrawal as the enemy threatened to encircle and isolate the company.
  • On the second floor, a long terrace encircles the courtyard at the center of which stands a typical Spanish-inspired fountain.
  • Both ponds were divided from the lake by a low promontory of land that encircled them.
  • His high-crowned grey hat lay on the floor, covered with dust, but encircled by a carcanet of large balas rubies; and he wore a blue velvet nightcap, in the front of which was placed the plume of a heron, which had been struck down by a favourite hawk in some critical moment of the flight, in remembrance of which the king wore this highly honoured feather. The Fortunes of Nigel
  • The end of the cosmogony is the astronomical system described in section 4.2 below, in which ten heavenly bodies including the earth encircle the central fire. Philolaus
  • The font itself was set Beneath a dome-shaped Baldachin and encircled by columns and an ambulatory (aisle), features first used by the byzantines.
  • Also, the vermiform constellation Draco, which traditionally occupies the polar position in the heavens of the northern hemisphere, encircles the center of a late quattrocento tapestry depicting the heavens as a wheel of fortune and an enormous astrolabe. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • Her brown hair was sharply cut off below her chin and swung freely around matching brown eyes encircled by tanned skin.
  • This stelliferous zone almost completely encircles the sphere, which it divides into two nearly equal parts, and is inclined at an angle of 63° to the celestial equator. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
  • Locomotives once used by showmen to haul and power fairground rides; road rollers like Blackberry Jack, which was submerged in brambles before its acquisition for restoration; and more manoeuvrable tractors, including Bo Peep and Hot Favourite, encircled by a procession of their miniature counterparts. Country diary: Stithians, Cornwall
  • The store delivers newspapers and magazines to homes and farms in a 20-mile radius and when Elvington was encircled by floodwater in 2000 carried on making its deliveries by boat.
  • The complex includes eight buildings encircled by a fortified wall. Smithsonian Mag
  • About five miles distant in front another line of cliff extends, which thus appears completely to encircle the valley; and hence the name of bay is justified, as applied to this grand amphitheatrical depression. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • The city is encircled by a hostile army.
  • From the centre of this footstalk rises a bundle of filaments that encircle the style, stamens springing also from the insertion of the leaves of the corolla, lining it with delicate beauty and waving their slender forms with exquisite grace. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
  • The galaxy's hallmark is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by the thick dust lanes comprising the spiral structure of the galaxy.
  • There is a high, upper gallery that encircles the inner courtyard of the main house.
  • Once the opposing side's defences had been penetrated, swiftly moving mechanized forces would create local encirclements and then, in conjunction with airborne and airmobile forces, enter the pursuit phase.
  • Thin slices of courgette and aubergine sat on top of tomato-infused couscous, which itself was encircled with a drizzle of pesto.
  • A single strand of wire encircled the top of both the exclosures and the open units to allow for similar seed input from bird defecation into all the units.
  • We should encircle the enemy forces completely and let none escape from the net.
  • The ragtag Republican forces, resisting him in their forlorn fight against fascism, had encircled the town.
  • She felt a steady grip around her right wrist and a strong arm encircle her waist.
  • When we then learned from the local news bulletins that defence systems such as surface-to-air missiles now encircle the city, many residents felt positively unsafe.
  • I smiled to myself as a pair of strong arms encircled my waist, steadying me and holding on tightly.
  • Within the giant hedge that encircled the island, butterflies flittered about, and the hum of bees filled the air. End of Time
  • Instead, tectonics has encircled the north pole with most of the great continents.
  • The image here comes from Norse mythology, in which the Midgard serpent is “of such an enormous size that holding his tail in his mouth he encircles the whole earth” (Bulfinch [1855] 2003: 333). Archive 2007-05-01
  • Without any prior notification and with compensations deals outstanding for families remaining there, around 200 police "encircled" the community in the middle of the night and were followed later in the morning by more than 300 workers with bulldozers, said Chan Saveth of the rights group Adhoc. KI Media
  • A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.
  • The city would be encircled by its defensive walls pierced by town gates.
  • The barbed wire encirclement of about 40 metres by 10 metres encloses a hutment of the usual type, a large shed, a small building which is the guard room, and a small place which serves as a laundry and has a bathroom and the latrines. Work Camp 11017 GW
  • The encirclement of the world by telegraph by the early 1870s represented yet another revolution in communications.
  • If that doesn't work, encircle the suburbs with heavily armed tanks and frogmarch these people back into the city where they're supposed to be living in the first place.
  • The leaves are cordate-orbicular to ovate-orbicular, strongly acuminate, 15-30 cm long and broad; the petioles are thickened at the base with ear like projections that often encircle the stem. Chapter 37
  • At the underside of the sixth floor, the atrium narrows to a small opening encircled by polished granite voussoirs.
  • Guan accused the United States of being a "hegemon" and of plotting to encircle China with strategic alliances. In Chinese admiral's outburst, a lingering distrust of U.S.
  • Literary works by such artists as James and Wharton are famous for how they artistically encircle, circumscribe, the densely overcrossing lines and cracks of multi-dimensional social and emotional "relations," while still preserving those relations 'ramifying complexity. Critical Presentism
  • Strings of haliotis and pachydesma shell beads encircled their necks, and around their waists were belts heavily loaded with the same material. An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians
  • The man in the picture is wearing the pallium, which is the strip of cloth with black crosses that encircles his neck and hands down in front. Who is this guy?
  • Sitting under a rose and clematis arbour in one area, you see through a lunette in a pyracantha hedge to a pond, encircled by lavender, heleniums, hemerocallis, gaillardias and calamintha.
  • The little hill station of Kohima, north of Imphal and on the road to the important railhead of Dimapur, was encircled, but held out in an epic siege.
  • Ideal plans for breaking out the encirclement completely smashed.
  • As had she been a dog, he kicked the ugly little bushwoman to her feet and compelled her to start with him on an encirclement of the base. THE RED ONE
  • Extremely steep slopes encircle the northwestern terminus of the ravine and conglomeratic sandstone slump boulders lie on the lower elevations of the ravine.
  • Set amidst the peaceful sylvan surroundings of Jaipur's Ramgarh, encircled by a tranquil valley and cool lake, you will find a completely new experiment with the traditional madrasa education system.
  • When Serbian tanks and fighters encircled the city, she was trapped outside. Times, Sunday Times
  • His capital is encircled by rebels. Times, Sunday Times
  • Duck breast is pan-roasted golden as schnitzel and encircled by a cherry jus and caramelized salsify.
  • Al Deir is encircled by the rounded bluffs and ridges of a range which plunges 1500 metres to Wadi Araba, a valley linking the Dead Sea to the Red Sea.
  • The city is nearly encircled by rebel troops.
  • By faith the walls of Jericho fell , having been encircled for a period of seven days.
  • In the heart of the department, Puy de Dome is this lovely place, encircled by beautiful hills, rippling brooklets with waterfalls and various mountain lakes.
  • In Samhain, banks of grass-covered earth in the shape of a sleeping woman wrap around a pool encircled in a ring of birch trees.
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  • The great man of letters William Dean Howells wrote in "Stories of Ohio" 1897 that if Chapman was right in his Swedenborgian belief that we are encircled by spirits that reflect our own behavior, then "this harmless, loving, uncouth, half-crazy man walked daily with the angels of God. A Pro-Growth Strategy
  • Jack's arms encircled her waist.
  • One of Matt's arms encircled my waist and the other held my hand.
  • Multi-layered exodermis encircled the aerenchymatous cortex with air cavities.
  • The latest outrage was the encirclement of the city, cutting it off and isolating it from its environment through barricades.
  • She was seated upon the edge of it, and I was beside her, with one knee on the floor, clasping both her hands in one of mine, while the other still encircled her body, holding her tightly against me in that rhapsody of love which overawes all sense of understanding. Princess Zara
  • But he proved equal to the task of avoiding encirclement and destruction, and in February 1943 he was promoted field marshal as a reward for his generalship.
  • The keep in stone encircled from the full water ditch that we see today was built at this time.
  • And I never found the envelope with my name encircled by a heart, revolving on that rack. Chocolate for a Lover’s Heart
  • The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth and the smoke encircled his head like a wreath.
  • I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein 
  • The women broke off mulga branches and used them as brooms to sweep the sandy ground encircled by the trees with meticulous care before spreading out picnic blankets and building a fire. Wildwood
  • I felt his arms encircle my waist, and suddenly, we were five years old again, nothing mattered except our childish games, there was no war.
  • The pond is encircled by trees.
  • A deep deposit of grey ashes and sand encircled this _cuvette_. Across Unknown South America
  • Their preferred habitat is the annual sea ice over the continental shelf and inter-island archipelagos that encircle the polar basin.
  • Suddenly, I felt a pair of arms encircle my waist and pull me into an embrace.
  • The cells lack a sheath and are uni-nucleate with a conspicuous single laminate parietal chloroplast that encircles less than half of the cell.
  • One the most delightful doric temple of Greece, the Temple of Aphaia is located a top the pine-clad Mesagro hill on the northeast end of the island and it is encircled by excellent views of the saronic gulf and the surrounding area. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • A Russia policy of isolation and encirclement is not compatible with the contemporary geopolitical playing field, and we have seen this policy (in striking similarity to other, similar policies) exacerbate the hostility and corruption of the very regime it was meant to moderate. Matthew Yglesias » Michael McFaul on Russia
  • A crowd of 'jibbing' heifers encircled her on all sides, while a fat porker, Penelope's Irish Experiences
  • The iridocorneal angle usually is a wide angle, is formed by the iris and the cornea, and encircles the anterior chamber.
  • Just a few weeks later, August Benz & Cie did the same with their logo, the Benz name encircled by a wreath. Autoblog
  • At First Avenue the crosswalk is blocked by a Con Ed van and an open manhole cover encircled by yellow rubber cones.
  • MPX Modal Explorer" measures Encircled Flux and Mode Power Distribution Controlled modal filling in multimode optical fibers, expressed as Encircled Flux or Mode Power Distribution, is vital for modern datacomms systems. Optics.org all content
  • There is a high, upper gallery that encircles the inner courtyard of the main house.
  • Underneath on the unvarnished surface, she scratched her initials, and William's, and encircled them with a heart. MY FAVORITE BRIDE
  • My head feels encircled by a band of iron, this despite that before leaving the Abbey, I replaced the heavy crown of my father with the far daintier diadem of gold studded with sapphires, rubies, and pearls that was made for my mother to wear at her own coronation. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
  • Before them lay the waters of a canal, and beyond it, rising from its bank, the great bastioned wall of sun-dried brick which encircled the inner city. Conan the Freebooter
  • Wondering why the full bus then hadn't moved, we realised that we were being encircled by the Lancashire local constabulary, ‘police evidence gatherers’ decked out in riot gear, and mounted police.
  • A spider's web was spun on his neck and on his right arm was a small blue swastika and an encircled A for anarchy.
  • You can buy fantastic rustic style six foot fencing from B&Q cheap enough to encircle the whole garden.
  • Forty-two diamonds encircle the bezel, which is the edge of the ring†™ s face, and two larger football-shaped diamonds are on each side of the bezel. MySpace Music To Launch Tonight. Here’s What You’ll See (And Hear)
  • Military encirclement and the bombing of markets and waterworks provokes hunger, thirst, and slow death for millions.
  • Thus the Soviets had succeeded in making deep breaches in the line on both flanks of the Sixth Army; there was a grave danger of encirclement.
  • Embroidery of colorful dragons chasing their tails encircles the cuffs of her wrists, hemline and neckline.
  • When they began to encircle the livestock, the herdsmen attempted to drive the cattle into the stockade.
  • Masses of infantry and guns would then advance on a broad front to encircle the enemy and destroy him with fire.
  • The island is encircled by a coral reef.
  • The prostate gland encircles the urethra adjacent to the neck of the bladder and is formed of 30 to 50 tubuloalveolar glands grouped into lobes.
  • The cuff is an inelastic cloth that encircles the arm and encloses the inflatable rubber bladder.
  • Controlled modal filling in multimode optical fibers, expressed as Encircled Flux or Mode Power Distribution, is vital for modern datacomms systems. Optics.org all content
  • The rampart wall was found to be encircled by at least two deep ditches, and possibly three, with counterscarps between tern.
  • I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein 
  • But Aleppo is not an encircled city deep in Syria. Times, Sunday Times
  • But one of the movie's many pleasures comes in watching Wright – who always thinks cinematically – adapt himself to a comic book-inspired piece of intelligent action trash, and he somehow maintains his grip until about 15 minutes before wrap time, when the cliches of the genre finally encircle and unhorse him. Joe Wright: wrong for Hollywood?
  • Al Deir is encircled by the rounded bluffs and ridges of a range which plunges 1500 metres to Wadi Araba, a valley linking the Dead Sea to the Red Sea.
  • The counteroffensive was planned as a single strategic operation by a group of fronts to encircle and destroy all enemy forces that had broken through to the Volga.
  • This is a good place to catch a profuse carpet of bluebells in spring, and there are giant redwoods with girths large enough to be encircled by ten or more people standing hand to hand.
  • I was reminded of the part in A Bridge Too Far when the only supply drop the encircled Allied troops actually manage to retrieve contains nothing but burgundy berets.
  • One's eye is immediately drawn to the relief decoration of alternating acanthus and palm leaves that encircles the body just above the base.
  • Eastern leaders charge that Mr. Morales is implementing "Plan Vinto," a strategy calling for Indians toencircle lowland cities that was drafted more than a decade ago by an indigenous highland group calledTupac Katari. Archive 2007-08-01
  • Lorries are scattered around and a barbed wire fence encircles a large area around the building.
  • A garter of white cowrie shells encircled one leg just below the knee. CHAPTER IX
  • We were encircled in this so-called "hong" by loveliness unlike any that we could have ever expected to see. The Macphersons: Week 40: Crusin'
  • During colonial times, the proximity of many of these storms to the autumnal equinox led early Americans to call them "equinoctial" storms or "line" storms, thought to be a reference to the tropic of cancer, the imaginary "line" near the hurricane breeding zone that encircles the world at approximately 23 ½ degrees N. latitude (it slowly changes position over time). Otto may form, but tropical season slowing?
  • With what composure could Great Britain await the German reoccupation of Tanganyika by which, with Italians already in control of Libya, the encirclement of Egypt and the Soudan would be made complete? The Present Challenge to British Imperialism
  • She had remarked that Francois 'forehead was stained or dyed of a bister color, his eyes were bloodshot and encircled with blue lines, his lips marked with furrows, like the impression which burning sulphur leaves on living flesh. The Forty-Five Guardsmen
  • But the town of St. Lo is ever gloriously lighted, for us, with a nimbus of young heads, such as encircled the earlier madonnas. In and out of Three Normady Inns
  • His capital is encircled by rebels. Times, Sunday Times
  • A golden band encircled it, decked with bells like all the rest of his outfit, and words were inscribed upon it.
  • Trunk tall, straight, vigorous strong, two adults in order to encircle over.
  • A forty-foot-high concrete wall encircles the jail.
  • Her painting depicts a Buddhist stupa encircled in chains, suggesting peace in trouble.
  • Each portrait is encircled with a foliate wreath and surrounded by classical rinceaux against a Byzantine style gold background.
  • Belfast sits at the mouth of the river Lagan and is encircled by green rolling hills.
  • A good idea is to board the little train which encircles the zoo enclosure and allows you to see the giraffes, hippos, zebra, camels and rhinos.
  • Having reached the peak, we got a stunningly beautiful view of the verdant valley below encircled by green hills.
  • When Serbian tanks and fighters encircled the city, she was trapped outside. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sixteen exhausted Soviet divisions were holding units of the 2nd and 3rd German panzer groups outside the encirclement ring.
  • To its east and southeast, it is "encircled" by American allies such as Japan, On Line Opinion - Latest Articles
  • The cord complications seen in their study were thrombosis, cord prolapse, umbilical vessel rupture, true knot, and cord encirclement with strangulation.
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  • —The articular capsule completely encircles the joint, being attached, above, to the circumference of the glenoid cavity beyond the glenoidal labrum; below, to the anatomical neck of the humerus, approaching nearer to the articular cartilage above than in the rest of its extent. III. Syndesmology. 6c. Humeral Articulation or Shoulder-joint
  • A good idea is to board the little train which encircles the zoo enclosure and allows you to see the giraffes, hippos, zebra, camels and rhinos.
  • It is now high noon for our lunarian standing beside the cross, while the earth over his head appears, if he sees it at all, only as a black disk close to the sun, or -- as would sometimes be the case -- covering the sun, and encircled with a beautiful ring of light produced by the refraction of its atmosphere. Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries
  • Around the barn a flagged terrace is encircled by cottage garden plants, such as delphiniums, rambling roses, geraniums, dianthus and lupins.
  • The stage is fully lit throughout the first four movements but darkened for the fifth and final movement in which the dancers perform a love duet encircled by strong beams of light.
  • In fact, the encirclement at Stalingrad did not happen until December 1942.
  • On either side of the fountain, a curved staircase connected the ground floor to an upper walkway that encircled the entire room.
  • They also located individual subway and railroad stations and identified the entrance and exit ramps on the Moscow Ring Road, the automobile beltway that encircled the city.
  • Their breath encircled the chateau like a wreath, wrapping its way around the substantial estate as if wanting to squeeze out every last drop of life, which existed inside.
  • The gate-crashers were quickly welcomed by the delighted Iranian guests, who encircled them, clapping and dancing to the festive bandari music pouring out of the sound system. As diversity grows, Md. catering hall becomes a 'United Nations for weddings'
  • The artist encircles this cross with a line to mark it off as significative.
  • Here the Toronto Consort ensemble and guests position themselves and their instruments around a church and in the balconies for an encircled performance of carols, German love songs and Michael Praetorius's four-choired The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • The complex includes eight buildings encircled by a fortified wall. Smithsonian Mag
  • A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.
  • A wreath of ivy encircled his head, and his hair fell in ripples to his shoulders.
  • Each commences within the sinus of the corresponding kidney as a number of short cup-shaped tubes, termed calyces, which encircle the renal papillæ. XI. Splanchnology. 3b. 2. The Ureters
  • This, constructed of trunks of trees, branches and osiers, was placed about twenty paces from the water, completely concealed by the bushes that encircled it; the inside was fitted up in rustic taste with seats of wood, the whole carpeted with turf, and the entrance planted with every kind of odoriferous flower. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches
  • There are magnificent avenues of elm-trees, great gardens encircled by the moat, and a circumference of walls about a huge manorial pile which represents the profits of the maltote, the gains of farmers-general, legalized malversation, or the vast fortunes of great houses now brought low beneath the hammer of the Civil Code. A Woman of Thirty
  • We should encircle the enemy forces completely and let none escape from the net.
  • On her way home, some teenagers in parked cars that reeked of hash used cuss words, followed her, tried to grab her, encircled her with their vehicles, and the poor woman and her niece felt trapped. Global Voices in English » Egypt: April 18 Declared Anti-Harassment Day
  • If you become encircled and trapped by the fire, look for shelter in a body of water, amongst rocks, or a natural depression in the ground, void of burnable materials, in which to lie in.
  • They also located individual subway and railroad stations and identified the entrance and exit ramps on the Moscow Ring Road, the automobile beltway that encircled the city.
  • 1522 -- _Az., a lion rampt. queue fourchée erm., crowned or_ -- is encircled by _peach-branches fructed and in foliage, each peach being charged with the letter É_, No. 297; the crest-wreath also is formed of a similar peach-branch. The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • Five slightly smaller clusters encircle the center, each with a faceted demantoid green garnet at its center.
  • I was about to let go when I felt his arm encircle my waist, and his chin rest on the top of my head.
  • The pistil was unaffected in some cases, while in some others it was entirely wanting, the gynophore being surmounted by a cup-like involucre, divided into three acutely pointed lobes, each with a midrib; these encircled a series of stalked involucels, as before, and among which were scattered Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • He found the two encircled in one another's arms fast asleep.
  • The city is encircled by a hostile army.
  • The army was mobilized and encircled the airport.
  • Territorial maximalists are pushing hard for an ‘encirclement fence.’
  • Traffic encircles the Angel of Independence monument on Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma.
  • But a bit of near-nudity notwithstanding, their arrival might have gone unnoticed had it not been for the fact that there were 4 000 of them dancing in the wood-encircled meadow halfway up the mountainside. Dancing on Olympus | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
  • A number of lawn chairs and a canopied swing were encircled around a large, self-dug fire pit, in which a small orange fire was crackling merrily in the afternoon sun.
  • Backlighting the hand, a bright yellow disk rests against a washy sienna background encircled by a repeating phrase in Gujarati.
  • The great man of letters William Dean Howells wrote in "Stories of Ohio" 1897 that if Chapman was right in his Swedenborgian belief that we are encircled by spirits that reflect our own behavior, then "this harmless, loving, uncouth, half-crazy man walked daily with the angels of God. A Pro-Growth Strategy
  • In the western part of the parish is a valley encircled with hills, celebrated for goats’ milk, which is in much request by valetudinarians, who resort hither during the summer months.
  • That rag-tag, fly-encircled debaucher possessed a decidedly bad humor entirely lacking in this merry Falstaff. Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage
  • When Clinton mentioned Leipzig, Reagan the "encircled" City Hall where Kennedy spoke, and Kennedy himself the "defended island of freedom," their comments roused because they were grounded in political geography. Mayhill Fowler: Barack's Berlin Gamble
  • Spreading pecans encircled the house back in the Little Town, trees which received yearly pruning, faithful webworm eradications, and regular fertilizing.
  • When Serbian tanks and fighters encircled the city, she was trapped outside. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps we should open a new front on "impoliteness" and try to encircle 'em from the rear. Think Progress
  • Liberty and her mobcap are smaller than on the 1808 pieces, giving room for the stars to encircle all but the bottom of the portrait, but the reverse from that version was continued with only slight modifications (refinement of the lower wing feathers most noticeable). Capped Head Left Quarter Eagle, Large Diameter, 1821-1827 : Coin Guide
  • A band , as on a long sleeve or a wristwatch, that encircles the wrist.
  • They tend to remain slumped in a hammock slung between two cork trees, laid out on a bamboo sunbed under a young olive, or lounging on the luminous green strip of lawn that encircles the pool.
  • Around the barn a flagged terrace is encircled by cottage garden plants, such as delphiniums, rambling roses, geraniums, dianthus and lupins.
  • The site is landscaped and encircled with stone paths and plants in keeping with the natural habitat.
  • A balustrade emphasized by gargoyles encircled each of the three steps.
  • One of the most remarkable characters of the genus _Caecilia_, which it shares with about two-thirds of the known genera of the order, is the presence of thin, cycloid, imbricate scales imbedded in the skin, a character only to be detected by raising the epidermis near the dermal folds, which more or less completely encircle the body. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • This is the second form of our counter - encirclement of the enemy.
  • The island was encircled by a dusty road.
  • But Aleppo is not an encircled city deep in Syria. Times, Sunday Times
  • Barely mentioned except in passing is the Spanish Civil War, for example, where for three whole years between 1936 and 1939 Germany and Italy lent troops and weapons in a Fascist invasion of a sovereign European nation that had never threatened or "encircled" them in any way. A War Worth Fighting
  • Pale walls of sand-colored stone encircled the town.
  • Each portrait is encircled with a foliate wreath and surrounded by classical rinceaux against a Byzantine style gold background.
  • The photo showed the captive sitting down, encircled by several armed men.
  • An army officer was next to him, his eye encircled with a faint black mark.
  • The Elu of Fifteen ought therefore to take the lead of his fellow-citizen, not in frivolous amusements, not in the degrading pursuits of the ambitious vulgar; but in the truly noble task of enlightening the mass of his countrymen, and of leaving his own name encircled, not with barbaric splendor, or attached to courtly gewgaws, but illustrated by the honors most worthy of our rational nature; coupled with the diffusion of knowledge, and gratefully pronounced by a few, at least, whom his wise beneficence has rescued from ignorance and vice. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • They have planted a formal, yew-encircled rose garden, with blue-painted pergolas and arbours, and have recently planted a gravel garden beside the sea road, with cistus, eryngiums and grasses.
  • Inside the curtained pergola was a round table, encircled by a kind of cushioned pew. The High Crusade
  • The prominently depicted hen and rooster form the brightest spot in the foreground, as they are encircled by an aureole of light.
  • The gun was dug in and encircled by a wall of sandbags. A Channel of Peace

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