[
UK
/ɛnsˈɜːklɪŋ/
]
[ US /ɛnˈsɝkəɫɪŋ, ɛnˈsɝkɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ɛnˈsɝkəɫɪŋ, ɛnˈsɝkɫɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
being all around the edges; enclosing
his encircling arms
the room's skirting board needs painting
How To Use encircling In A Sentence
- The Reading Room, with its broad encircling staircases, appears somewhat out of proportion, lessening the impact of the porticos in the courtyard, which are grand in their own right but diminutive by comparison.
- Such collars set off the beauty of a woman, the encircling steel, significatory of bondage, contrasting nicely with the softness of her throat, shoulders and breasts. Mercenaries Of Gor
- She sat behind her desk, a blue wreath of cigarette smoke encircling her head, while I leaned against the doorframe.
- Astounded, she gazed in his eyes for a space, like a beautiful statue, and then suddenly burst out sobbing; and with the wonderful feminine impetuosity which only grand-souled, uncalculating women, created for fine impulses of the heart, are capable of, threw herself upon his neck, encircling it with her wondrous snowy arms, and wept. Taras Bulba
- Instead, the light cast shadows around him, encircling him passively.
- The pose won't make here knee feels demanding, he can guide you cozily to enter a climax, touch deep the vagina each inches, undertake fluctuating reaching hitting encircling a movement.
- However, her eyes now had light black rings encircling them from lack of sleep, and he couldn't remember the last time he saw her really eat a decent meal.
- Mother and baby live near the airport, while their protuberantly lipped kin mooch about on the cycling and hiking trails by which the encircling Alaskan wilderness infiltrates and permeates the city.
- It is sited unusually, on flat land rather than atop one of the encircling hills.
- In the subcutaneous tissue - with the technic used in this investigation - these cells rarely show distinct transverse processes encircling the capillary.