How To Use Engulf In A Sentence

Lee waved down the server behind the counter, who seemed to have been engulfed in conversation with one of the two men seated next to us.
A curious and unwary fish would become a meal when the goosefish inhaled and quickly engulfed its prey.
It has now been engulfed in nationalism, religion and history. The Global Marketplace
These are (1) the production in the blood of an antidote to the toxin or poison elaborated by the invading microbe -- an antitoxin, which chemically neutralises the toxin; (2) the production in the blood of the attacked animal of a "germicidal" poison which repels and kills the attacking microbes themselves (not merely neutralising their poisonous products); (3) the extermination of the intrusive, disease-producing microbes by a kind of police, which scour the blood channels and tissues and "eat up" -- actually engulf and digest -- the hostile intruders. More Science From an Easy Chair
The flock simultaneously screamed and swooned as Way crooned "Cancer," a dirge about a slow death from the title illness, all while backlit with a massive white spotlight and engulfed in a faux smoke haze. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com

Before I was fully upright, a powerful surge of pain engulfed my body.
Stuffed into the neck of the bottle was a flame engulfed rag, blazing brightly.
Such men must be honoured and respected, lest chaos engulf the navel of the world yet again.
When they arrived home about 30 minutes later, Suedhoff said the house was "engulfed" in flames. Lsj.com - News
After failing to get to the girls, Waddington ran from her home screaming to the neighbours for help just before the house was completely engulfed in flames and smoke.
The Blackshirt column would be swept up and engulfed when it appeared. THE WHITE DOVE
Alisha was eventually rescued by firefighters from her bedroom, after a chip pan fire engulfed the kitchen in flames.
But there was no indication that the move would be more than a short-term balm for the crisis engulfing the Eurozone. News - latimes.com
It sounds like your underlying fears of rejection and engulfment are controlling your life and not letting you share love.
Nor are German businesses being helped by the crisis engulfing the country 's banks. Times, Sunday Times
It has now been engulfed in nationalism, religion and history. The Global Marketplace
May 10th, 2009 ALLAHABAD - A massive fire engulfed an optical fibre cable factory in Naini area of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Simply stated, if one believes the current chaos engulfing Iraq will eventually be replaced by a stable, effective government, then the dinar ought to be a good buy. Dinar Brokers Boom in Iraq Chaos
But then the flames drowned out the rest, and Raspa was engulfed in flames that stretched up and spluttered sparks like shooting stars into the velvety black, strangely beautiful night sky. Bubble in the Bathtub
Overwhelming relief and joy engulfed Jason upon seeing her and he took a step forward.
The heat and concussive force of the airbursts produced the expected results, instantly engulfing the rebel base in an apocalyptic conflagration.
I think that one day we will understand what are the sources of the crisis that has now engulfed the whole world. Times, Sunday Times
She is inexorably engulfed by the cloud of shame that surrounds parricide.
Together with our friends and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf us.
The front door of the house was open and the smells of the kitchen engulfed them.
It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. David Wilkerson again predicts catastrophe
Regarding globalism as an alien and godless ideology engulfing their country, they fear that transnational forces are relentlessly eroding the traditional American way of life.
Cold and nondescript from the street, it sits about 2 miles from campus, adjacent to a Bed Bath & Beyond and engulfed on three sides by the tall, barbed-wire fence of a local auto body shop. Catlin has made a career out of busting juicers
Nothing survives of the original garden except the profusion of attractive plant life that engulfs Gordon Town.
Why was I standing on a porch in the middle of some forsaken jungle waiting for the night to engulf me?
Over the weeks, Mr. Sobol explores the shrines and ruins and in his account describes the history of the place, the still-unexplained 15th-century collapse of the Khmer Empire and Angkor's eventual engulfment by the jungle. Finding True North, Chasing Elusive Bigfoot
The latest scandal engulfing the department has been over prisoners absconding from non-secure open prisons. Times, Sunday Times
As they marshaled the aircraft to its final parking spot, the number three brake became engulfed in flames.
A professional photographer had fused the lights, engulfing the entire house in darkness.
She says the couple'were engulfed and then swept away by a wave of fame and fortune. Times, Sunday Times
The medium is the message because the message, the culture and ideology of consumerism, has engulfed the medium.
It moves at the rate of 800 ft to 1000 ft a year and during the 18th century overran cultivated fields and threatened to engulf communities.
During the gunfight a fire broke out which immediately engulfed the neighboring houses.
His infectious enthusiasm and energy engulfs players and supporters alike.
Loren fought the feeling of helpless panic that threatened to engulf him.
Other demonstrators, passers-by and tourists rubbed their eyes and coughed as the acrid mix of smoke and teargas engulfed the area. Times, Sunday Times
Two quick twelve inch pulls then a huge head appeared quickly engulfing the frog, this was followed by a big boil and swirl.
His lower half was engulfed in army-issue shorts held up by one of Francis's old school ties.
They came for a few sweet hours of respite from the conflict engulfing their country. Times, Sunday Times
That disaster has now engulfed Italy and its neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
For me, this entailed a completely engulfing sense of vertiginous nihilism. Times, Sunday Times
Global warming will cause the seas to rise, engulfing islands and flooding coastal areas.
Confronting seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us.
LOS ANGELES Reuters - Paul McCartney on Thursday recalled the shock and fear that engulfed New York in the aftermath of the Sept 11 attacks and what he called the magical power of music in helping to heal those wounds. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Strikes, riots and protests engulfed the country and the price increases were rescinded. Times, Sunday Times
The air inside the pub was dense and suffocating, thick with sweat and laughter, jolliness engulfing and eating away at everything in the room.
Amethyst flame bloomed, engulfing the ship in crackling light.
The sudden intake of air with the heat of the cigarette caused a flashover and he was trapped as flames and smoke engulfed the vehicle.
I wasn't about to enter into an explanation of the tornado of confusion that was engulfing my life right now.
Are these a coincidence, or has an evil force engulfed the town?
In that instant, Juliet felt a surge of happiness that filled her chest and almost engulfed her.
Being engulfed in psychosis was the best intoxication I ever had. Think Progress » Purported doctor on Texas A&M message board claims he ‘laid off my first Obama voting employee.’ (Updated)
More revelations are sure to come, a cleansing flood of leaks that threatens to engulf both the government and senior Canadian Forces figures. Torturegate: the bottomless pit
This is a rare book: one that will engulf you, the power of its language bright as flames. Times, Sunday Times
The way they look - first prettily adorned, then by the end tattered - evokes the resplendence of Cio-Cio-San the bride, then the degradation that engulfs her as she nears her inevitable, ruinous end. Screens evoke 'Butterfly' magic
From the forest came the aura of flames, the roar of forestry engulfed in fire and the crackle of burning leaves.
Here, its upbeat graveyard stomp, engulfed in Townsend's studied licks and organist Kyle Forester's perspicuous interludes recalls what the soundtrack to much-revered London niterie The Batcave must have sounded like back in 1982. Drowned In Sound // Feed
A mighty barking heralds your approach, and the visitor is engulfed by a tidal wave of Labradors, Westies and an Irish Water Spaniel who then jockey for position beside and over you on the sofas.
The blue nimbus soon engulfed them and vanished from view.
In one instance, a sailboat owner left his vessel to visit the marina office, only to return minutes later to an engulfed boat.
Gavin noticed that I wasn't actually hanging in the waterfall, so he helpfully dammed it and periodically released a sudden four-second tidal wave to completely engulf me.
Although the men fought doggedly on, a sense of hopeless despair engulfed them.
MSPs would launch a revolution that would "engulf" Scotland and put socialism back on the agenda across Europe. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
The region thus engulfed was beyond Europe, Asia, and Lybia, beyond the columns of Hercules, where those powerful people, the Atlantides, lived, against whom the first wars of ancient Greeks were waged. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
As I entered the premises, I was instantly engulfed in the warm glow of scores of happy yuppies, slumming aristocrats, homesick business-travelers and a contingent of restaurant critics.
The thinner ones are engulfed by it. Times, Sunday Times
In one appalling calamity, a hundred women died in a fire that engulfed a silk filature because the owner had locked them in from the outside. The Last Empress
THOUSANDS of families fled yesterday when a huge wildfire engulfed homes in the suburbs of Athens. The Sun
The worsening storm engulfing the sector will inevitably trigger fears of widespread covenant breaches. Times, Sunday Times
Finally the flame would engulf his head and he'd explode in a furious orange ball of flame.
One is engulfed by motorbikes seconds away from Ho Chi Minh City airport HCMC is the city's official name, and though busts and portraits of Uncle Ho abound in public buildings, I never heard anyone in Saigon call it Ho Chi Minh City. The Motorbike Economy
In three minutes, the club was engulfed in flames.
The helicopters landing in what are called brownout conditions, meaning the dust on the desert floor rises up and engulfs the helicopter. CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003
Other demonstrators, passers-by and tourists rubbed their eyes and coughed as the acrid mix of smoke and teargas engulfed the area. Times, Sunday Times
I was completely engulfed in the show. The Sun
Instead of her husband offering vital moral or otherwise support, he abandoned her because of her bleeding and the subsequence infection that presumably engulfed her. The Horrific Tale of Sonkorey: the tip of the iceberg on the attrocities committed by Ethiopians in Somalia
Strikes, riots and protests engulfed the country and the price increases were rescinded. Times, Sunday Times
The fire started in the front room and quickly engulfed it charring the ceiling, stairwell and door-frames before spreading to the hallway.
Nor are German businesses being helped by the crisis engulfing the country 's banks. Times, Sunday Times
In an equally astounding fashion, the Medium's violent pillar of fire engulfed the Dark Master's whole body from head to foot, swallowing Henry in a raging inferno hotter than the scorches of Hell.
But, the sea of people converging on the floor may have engulfed them because I don't see them any more.
A seven-year-old boy was found dead after a landslide engulfed a block of flats.
The emptiness of it all is to be hidden under the esctasy – contorted faces, twisted limbs, saints, whose only true passion is the dread of their own engulfing doubt, which they try to drown in sickly exaltation. Jenny: A Novel
Its corridors were engulfed in choking smoke as the fire took hold.
Meanwhile Plehve's undefeated Fifth Army had turned about and was threatening to engulf Dankl's now unprotected right flank.
Come back tomorrow when we'll have the women's 200m final which was postponed today as chaos once again engulfed the games as Cyprus's Eleni Artymata appeals against her disqualification. Commonwealth Games day seven - as it happened
The barn was engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived on the scene and the structure eventually collapsed.
Cuts that are urgently needed to stop our country being engulfed by Europe's financial wildfire. The Sun
The event horizon of the artificial black hole blew out, engulfing all six soldiers, before imploding with tremendous force.
Within minutes, however, the entire city was engulfed in a torrent of rain - easily one of the heaviest in recent times.
We as a society - including me - have been "engulfed" by television for about 60 years. Norman Horowitz: Sarah Palin 3
Border City burned, the magical flames from Uriko's spell spreading out from near its center, engulfing the whole city.
In seconds, the whole wreckage was engulfed in raging flames and happiness had turned to horror.
He blamed the cash crisis now engulfing hospitals on bumper pay rises given to doctors and nurses. The Sun
But prepare to be feel completely engulfed. Times, Sunday Times
It is difficult to overdramatise the danger that is engulfing our country. A Place to Stand
And in the United States, it was the Gilded Age that saw the new industrial economy engulf the entire continent.
Just as he moved his wrist a shooting pain engulfed his whole hand, bringing out a pained expression on his face.
The events and power struggles which engulf them result in kidnapping, jealousy and romance!
‘A floodtide of filth is engulfing our country in the form of newsstand obscenity,’ its narrator intoned.
In the rare moments when the self-reproach would ease up, grief or dejection would engulf him.
The owners of the 150 properties engulfed by flood waters 15 months ago were not the only people heaving a sigh of relief.
The Prime Minister's unprecedented decision to let the British people and the world know he will not fight for a fourth term in office threatens to engulf Labour in even greater internecine warfare.
The rain cannot cauterize the burning, the flames that engulf my skin. ASTRUM EXURO • by Rhiannon Morgan
Zoe's screams of fear and rage became muffled as he began to engulf her, and she realized how powerless she was in her current state.
For me, this entailed a completely engulfing sense of vertiginous nihilism. Times, Sunday Times
The king insists that he took direct control over the country's affairs to restore peace at a time when violence literally engulfed the kingdom.
I'll be fully engulfed in infectious disease before mid morning! Anhedonia (excerpt)
A photographer had fused the lights, engulfing the entire house darkness.
The sway of earth _shook_ like a thing unfirm," thousands of houses crumbled to their base, tens of thousands of human beings were buried beneath ruins, or engulfed by the gaping ground. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
In the best traditions of chaos theory the storm which engulfed the coalition's forestry sell-off began last summer with little more than the fluttering of a butterfly's wings when new ministers warned the Forestry Commission that modest in-year savings would have to be made in its current budget. Forestry sell-off: public and political opposition forced U-turn
The asymmetrical triangles of water and dune give shape to the engulfing sand and sky.
The place was already engulfed in flames when he and his roommate Jerome awoke.
The center of the platform began to open like an iris and a geyser of flame spewed forth, engulfing its first breath of air.
The helmsman skillfully navigated the ship towards the enormous docking bay doors which engulfed the view screen.
So the flood did not engulf the whole town, but only a part. Modern Science in the Bible
The forest quickly engulfed them but the normal freshness of flowers, sap, and growing plants were void in such a place.
Within and without, flame engulfed the fallen plate-district.
Once a mass of prey is engulfed, a rorqual then has to squeeze the water out through its baleen plates while at the same time retaining the prey. From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
He turned his attention to a dead body, dragged halfway onto shore, the other half engulfed in the unilluminated black waters of the lake.
But granting all this, you feel that these foreign investors are too numerous, that they have too much capital, that they control too much of your business, that they manage these enterprises primarily in their own interest rather than in the Canadian interest; and in short, that you may be-as I have said - "engulfed". A View From the North
Whatever crisis engulfs the country, at least you know that the engine is turning over smoothly, every sprocket interlocking, the gears changing so imperceptibly that all you can hear is the ticking of the clock.
Yves Lion offers the vision of a Paris engulfed in forests and fields where every citizen would cultivate their own vegetable patch.
If you've ever lost yourself in a book, a film or a piece of music, if you've ever travelled abroad on your own, you'll know about that moment of hesitation when you return to find your old life, seemingly unchanged, waiting to engulf you.
The flames rapidly engulfed the house.
Mr Swales said flames were coming out of the front door and the living room was engulfed in fire.
Hitler's henchmen were a troglodyte lot, burrowing deep beneath the capital during their 12 years of power to build bunkers and boltholes as refuges from the massive violence they seemed to know would one day engulf them.
Tim should also see his way through to retirement, despite the storm engulfing the drugs industry.
Nor are German businesses being helped by the crisis engulfing the country 's banks. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the makeshift tourniquet, blood had twisted down his jeans, engulfing his knee. THE KILL CLAUSE
Mothers would knit him chunky woollen jumpers that engulfed his slight frame. Times, Sunday Times
With many more countries still to declare the size of their teams, the problem threatens to engulf the organising committee.
I still get depressed and I still get into bad moods, but that engulfing sadness is something I haven't experienced in quite the same way since.
A woman was plucked from a car seconds before it was engulfed in flames.
Composition No. 79 manifests a cragginess and complexity that engulf the overall image but the aesthetic conclusion is astoundingly sublime and pleasing to the eye.
She timed her telling so that the cloud engulfed us just as she got to the spooky bit. Times, Sunday Times
The newborn lambs gambolling in the fields are oblivious to the heartache which engulfed Town End farm two years ago, yet they symbolise the fresh optimism of farmer Chris.
I seem to remember that you have previously been very critical of the traditional endosymbiotic hypothesis for the origin of the nucleus (where the nucleus arose from an archaeon engulfed by a bacterium). Albert de Roos: A design hypothesis for the evolution of the nucleus
She jumped out of bed only to see fire raging, engulfing her room.
However, the country was soon engulfed in a bloody civil war in which one million people lost their lives out of a population of 14 million.
That is a measure of the chaos that has engulfed the party that nominally forms the opposition. Times, Sunday Times
The office block's uppermost floors were engulfed with flames.
TWO workmen suspended on a cradle inside a 120 ft metal chimney died when they were engulfed in a fireball after a massive explosion.
He had taken but two steps before he was engulfed by a pair of slender arms and he endured the stranglehold of their embrace only as long as he deemed appropriate before he freed himself from his official bride.
Given our present mindset, we wouldn't have been at all surprised if the plane crash landed into the skyline of Manhattan and its 7,500 gallons of fuel engulfed everything in its path and news shows pattered on about the horrible memories of September 11th. Floating planes and the economy
The monkey engulfed the food whole.
Had she been a little older, and just a little more rotund, one might have suspected her indulging in a treatment; but it required, finally, the combined strength of Cleo and Jennie to extricate the "lost soul" from the meshes into which that roll and a couple of fine silkoline quilts had engulfed her. The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening
It exploded out of the stern, and in a moment most of the airship was engulfed in barrelling fire. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
A seven-year-old boy was found dead after a landslide engulfed a block of flats.
For example, the wispy foliage of cosmos will engulf spiky salvia flowers and is a contrast to the rounded leaves of pelargoniums.
Since this is only the world's largest nuke complex, with only seven reactors on site, and only several hundred barrels of nuke waste tipped over, and far fewer had their lids fly off, and the gas emissions the utility lied about were only tritium, which is less deadly than plutonium, the fact that all of Japan was not engulfed in a catastrophic radiation release (yet) will be used to sell more reactors. Harvey Wasserman: PR Nuke Flacks Do the Kashiwazaki Quake Death Spin
A photographer had fused the lights, engulfing the entire house darkness.
In its heyday, it was the place to be in summer, but it is now engulfed by sand. Times, Sunday Times
However, the majority of the bulging to accommodate the engulfed water undoubtedly occurs passively as a result of the inertia of the water (and the rostral compression of the buccal cavity at mouth closure).
A powerful, insurgent movement had engulfed Italy in the years after 1969.
The desert storm is about to engulf you. Ride away, little boys , ride yourselves away.
Her pride burned like a flame, engulfing her, goading her to unreasonable action. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Cuts that are urgently needed to stop our country being engulfed by Europe's financial wildfire. The Sun
He said at times a racial incident would be exaggerated and people would say South Africa was still "engulfed" in racism. ANC Daily News Briefing
I nod to my father and hug the red scarecrow, threatening to engulf or crush him and squeal, ‘Oh, thank you, Daddy!’
He said the last government had not been aware of the scale of the crisis that had engulfed the steel industry. Times, Sunday Times
I argued that the washerwoman might have mangled her hand if she was caught in the wringer, but it couldn't have engulfed her entirely.
The bright light engulfed him completely
They came for a few sweet hours of respite from the conflict engulfing their country. Times, Sunday Times
Speaking to The AV Club, Currie revealed that she got "engulfed" in the movie, which also stars Kristen Stewart as her former bandmate Joan Jett, and forgot that the film was about her. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
I recall the bleakness that engulfed the land at our first meeting 15 years ago. Global Voices in English » The News of Bantu Mwaura’s death shocks Kenyan bloggers
When the police arrived 20 minutes later, the bus was still engulfed in flames, which hampered rescue efforts.
This is a rare book: one that will engulf you, the power of its language bright as flames. Times, Sunday Times
When Eric's gray curls reappeared from the vines engulfing him, I noticed his grin was a little wider than before. Pourriture - French Word-A-Day
They caught him just under the dressing room and engulfed him in joyous scenes. Times, Sunday Times
After fifteen or twenty seconds, Lily and Scheherazade (with Keith somehow bracketed in the middle of it) were swiftly and surreally engulfed by a swarm of young men, not boys or youths, but young men in sharp shirts and pressed slacks, whooping, pleading, cackling and all aflicker, like a telekinetic card trick of kings and knaves, shuffling and riffling and fanning out under the streetlamps ... 'The Pregnant Widow'
Bright white sparks rode along the surfaces of the halls, and then the light ceased, and the area was engulfed in eternal, everlasting darkness once more.
As the river sweeps away our words and thoughts, our mind gets out of the way to make room for the waves of joy that will soon engulf us and take us on unfathomable spiritual journeys. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
By the time they got there, the 106-year-old, three-story gabled house, on the graceful Esplanade, was engulfed in flames and unsalvageable.
But prepare to be feel completely engulfed. Times, Sunday Times
The dykes and sheets sharply truncate structures in the wall rock gneisses and greenstones, and large (several tens of metres) wall-rock xenoliths may be completely engulfed by the intrusive sheets.
I felt infused with a smug glow of satisfaction until I remembered I had a pile of muddy plant pots festering on my potting table so large it was threatening to engulf me.
He suffered burns to the back, neck and hands while trying to save his home from a blaze which engulfed the building during the wee hours of yesterday morning.
The yacht was suddenly engulfed by a huge wave while Mr Cammish was preparing the tow and he was washed overboard.
She would not allow herself to wallow in the misery that had been threatening to engulf her since his death.
A deep, overwhelming wave of emotion engulfed me, and I felt tears well in my eyes.
He said the sanctions risked engulfing the Horn of Africa in another cycle of conflict as it might encourage Ethiopia to contemplate what he called "reckless military adventures. Ethiopia Advocates Overthrow of Eritrean Government
_Clap -- clap -- clap_ was the only sound that reached me -- and with failing heart I knew the noise to be that of waves of the lake beating upon the wall within a few inches of my window, the dark waters which in due time would no doubt rise through my uneven floor and engulf me. The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia
Shortly before I met you I was this cold-blooded animal engulfed in murder and fleshly desires.
The overflowing river has engulfed many towns and villages along its banks.
Finally the flame would engulf his head and he'd explode in a furious orange ball of flame.
She timed her telling so that the cloud engulfed us just as she got to the spooky bit. Times, Sunday Times
An explosion of smoke engulfed him, swallowing his body in a flume of colors.
They are the eight or so Balaenoptera species of the mysticete family Balaenopteridae*, all of which open their jaws wide to engulf masses of prey and possess a highly distensible throat pouch and extensible longitudinal grooves on the throat and belly. A 6 ton model, and a baby that puts on 90 kg a day: rorquals part I
That disaster has now engulfed Italy and its neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
For me, this entailed a completely engulfing sense of vertiginous nihilism. Times, Sunday Times
With Prince Philip, she has to share the blame for the disastrous decade which has engulfed the royals.
Floodwaters also engulfed the playing field all the way up to the first row of seats in the stadium, but by Wednesday had receded from the stadium. Tennessee Titans Team Report
It engulfs its prey by encasing it in a suffocating plasma-like substance.
Do Zagat and Michelin award extra kudos or contain comments like "the hors d'oeuvres, though engulfed by a sea of balsamico can only be described, politely, as dismal; the main course gave the impression of having probably been recycled several times; HOWEVER the sanitary facilities whither these" comestibles "were swiftly dispensed with justify an overall 1* criteria. Propeller Most Popular Stories

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