How To Use Surrounded In A Sentence

They were now surrounded on all sides by a ring of excited, curious faces.
He slapped away a few dryads, but they still surrounded him.
Squire Western, who, surrounded by piqueurs, and girt with the conventional cor de chasse of the Gallic sportsman, sings the following ariette, diversified with true Fielding
Winfrey interviewed Cruise at his mountaintop home near Telluride, Colorado, surrounded by the snow-capped Rocky Mountains.
The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid.

This is a habit I developed surrounded by thick-skulled idiots.
Surrounded by cottonwoods and aspens and featuring a wooden footbridge and an abundance of regional flora and foliage, it's a place to meditate, contemplate, and relax.
The cover picture, the story and all the hoopla that surrounded it made me a celebrity. Times, Sunday Times
Surrounded by musicians and men who directed its movement, and followed by child maskers, the Ijele begin to spin, slowly at first, then gaining speed.
It's surrounded by mountains lush with greenery, bordered with wildflowers and dotted with water lilies.
The jetty was the way it had always been—flat and solid and surrounded on three sides by water. Stones from the River
A tall, impenetrable wall with barbed wire and sharp metal spikes on top surrounded the entire complex.
My neighbour lived on the terrace of his building, in a single room surrounded by cotes for his pigeons.
They're trapped, on boats, roofs, porches, surrounded by black and putrid water.
Thousands of people can live in a hutong which is made up of hundreds of quadrangular courtyards each surrounded by four homes.
We're in the suburbs surrounded mostly by fields and open land so we don't get the same amount of dust.
There was something about the collective multiplicity of images, the sense of being surrounded by them, that made it all so potent.
We're surrounded by families with kids in every direction so I no longer feel shame for wearing my trackies and having unkept hair at three (ok six) in the pm.
She is surrounded by the native wild ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum inherited with the property and planted with bronze carex self sown seedlings. First Frost Of Fall « Fairegarden
I sat at our old compounding table, surrounded by a welter of Skill-scrolls. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Sometime after AD 73 this was superseded by a palace, built using many exotic imported materials and surrounded by gardens and landscaped parkland.
The next morning, I head out early and stop first at Plaza Mayor, a huge square surrounded by some of the oldest buildings in the city.
Great – maybe Obama will travel to Colorado and "unveil" his policy surrounded by Greek columns. Obama to unveil new Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving, source says
It would be easy to snooze the day away in the spa, but Galway is surrounded by rich history and beautiful scenery that has to be explored. The Sun
My plan was to remove single cells from defined regions of the blastoderm and culture them in adult abdomens surrounded by genetically marked "feeder cells. Eric F. Wieschaus - Autobiography
Xylem and xylem parenchyma can be recognized in the centre of the taproot surrounded by a ring of meristematic tissue with very high intensity.
The glass pavilion, designed by Dirk van Pastel, is in the western corner of a triangular site, surrounded by the woods and fields of Burgundy.
King Arthur was surrounded by fey women, all intimately concerned with his fate.
The vessel is surrounded by half a dozen American warships but no moves have been made to board it. Times, Sunday Times
Each man was surrounded by an absolute armada of percussion: Bongos, congas, sambas and tom toms; high-hats, kettles, timpani and snares.
The final days of the mayoral campaign find mayoress Kathy Baildon in a familiar pose: in the campaign office, surrounded by charts and calendars, phone glued to her ear.
he was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire
The army surrounded the town in a pincer movement.
The bath was enormous, shiny white and surrounded by a wide shelf of polished mahogany.
He surrounded himself with witty courtiers and kept many beautiful mistresses.
Clad in a nightdress, boots (no socks) and a mackintosh, I am swept along by the crowd running before the speeding police jeeps until we are surrounded on all sides by heavily armed police.
Would you be negative about the area if you were surrounded by countryside like this?
Move on to complex appetizers like pheasant ballottine, a cylinder of braised meat surrounded by a savoury sauce and tiny little apples.
The sun shone brightly through the spreading leaves of the oak trees that surrounded the court.
This is a place to escape to, where you can sleep surrounded by whitewashed stone walls and lush gardens. Times, Sunday Times
A one-time fishing village, it has a beat-up, raffish looking downtown surrounded by new, big marinas.
At this crucial period of their lives they were surrounded by people who, in very many cases, undertook a complete about-turn with regard to their social and political views.
But here he is, threatening to go on and on, surrounded by fawning Labour ministers, backbenchers and constituency delegates.
But what is interesting for visitors is that the garden is still evolving: a gravel garden with silver plants is surrounded by a cloister of youthful hornbeams.
Starting with DNA surrounded by lipid vesicles and DNA binding proteins, a double membrane may spontaneously self-assemble around the DNA, a process which happens at every division in telophase. Albert de Roos: A design hypothesis for the evolution of the nucleus
Luck smiles in a building surrounded by tall trees. The Sun
Most of the paintings are about 3¼ by 4 inches in size, captioned by four lines of Latin text with oversize, illuminated capitals and surrounded by wide borders of tiny bryony leaves on coiling vines. A Most Illuminating Show of Medieval Manuscript Pages
I'm now living on an island surrounded by a moat.
The plan of the sanctuary complex, now a dignified patchwork of ruins, is quintessentially Syrian, with a small central temple surrounded by an expansive precinct known as the temenos . Temple of the 'Bride of the Desert'
The cowboy's life was far more prosaic than it appears in modern legend, consisting mainly of endless hours on the trail surrounded by thousands of bellowing beasts. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
She was surrounded by tug boats. Times, Sunday Times
The other woman sighed; Vicky's view of her was obstructed by a circle of three guards that surrounded her.
The beacon was surrounded by an anomalously flat area about 100 meters in diameter; anyone going for the beacon would be completely exposed for the last few seconds, an easy target for a concealed marksman.
In working with organometallic compounds, for example, he placed the metal atom at the center of a geometric figure (such as a cube) and surrounded it with other atoms, ions, and groups of atom at the corners of the figure.
Police said youth armed with machetes, knives, clubs and stones surrounded the building.
The tract thus characterised was about five or six acres in superficial extent; and surrounded by the same kind of coppice that covered most of the face of the country. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
Set in tranquil sea and surrounded by a powdery sand beach, it is a breathtaking scene. The Sun
At times she fell asleep in her seat and dreamed of being surrounded by packs of wild wolves.
Speaking generally, the design is formed by nine octagon figures, three by three, surrounded and divided by a guilloche cable band; the interspaces of the octagons are filled by four smaller square patterns, and the outer octagon spaces by 12 triangles. Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885
A perfectly braised shank on buttery mash surrounded by vegetables set the tastebuds going before the plate was even put down on the table.
• Le Trianon, avenue des Bains, Parc des Thermes, Allevard, +33 4 7671 9617, letrianon-allevard.frAlsace surprises the visitor, not just with the strange Germanic dialect and its colourful half-timbered gingerbread houses clustered in tiny villages surrounded by rolling vine-clad hills, but also with some of the country's finest cuisine. Budget bourguignon: cheap eats in France
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They were surrounded by hyenas, crocodiles and hippos and while in the swamps they went barefoot so they would feel a potentially deadly crocodile beneath their feet. The Sun
The Huaorani surrounded the hut and attacked with shotguns and machetes.
This was her first effort of the afternoon, a risotto of chicken and smoked bacon with green beans and Parmesan, surrounded by an infusion of fresh herbs in olive oil.
It's 159 yards from tee to green, but the real problem is that not only is the green surrounded by gorse and heather, but that the whole dip from tee to green is also deep, deep rough.
His large wooden desk is covered and surrounded by a collection of antique Montblanc pens, West African Bobo masks he collects them because they share his name and odd-looking sculptures of goats and rams in clothing by artist Sergio Bustamante. A Gathering Place as Warm as the Conversation
For a moment I thought she was going to expostulate, still surrounded by books and papers. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
It is surrounded by the same mystique that befogs other aspects of the Constitution. Founders Chic
Government broadcasting policy has always been surrounded by high-sounding rhetoric, but the need to ensure financial viability while filling the programming needs of a voracious medium has always been the basic driver of TV practice.
The gymnasium included a large palaestra surrounded by columns, and the baths in the east wing were fully equipped during the reign of Trajan when the emperor had the roof repaired.
I was surrounded by backslapping, laughing patrons.
At my elbow lies my running - or treasure-bag, surrounded by my cabas filled with hair-pins, starch, and a band I was embroidering, etc.; near it lie our combs, etc., and the whole is crowned by my dagger; - by the way, I must add Miriam's pistol which she has forgotten, A Confederate girl's diary,
He still spends his days tending bar, surrounded by smokers.
It stood out like the Taj Mahal in a trailer camp as it was surrounded by what can only be described as windowless hovels and wooden shacks.
She claimed that an atmosphere of sleaze and corruption now surrounded the Government.
At the centre of Kant's disc was the Sun, and the planets were assembled from material that surrounded it.
On France: I was a Francophobe before Francophobia was cool, but I actually had a splendid few days in France, surrounded by helpful strangers who were entirely accommodating to my recollection of 2 years of French, taken 15 years previous. Matthew Yglesias » The European Bogeyman
The boatman beaches us on a spit of land leading up to a stone house surrounded by willows.
He lived in the great house in Doocastle surrounded by servants, lackeys, and half-sirs who did his bidding without question.
Finally, let's not forget that Bermuda is only one mile wide and surrounded by water.
The ocelli (eye-like spots) on the spinous dorsal fin of males are metallic blue, surrounded by a golden ring.
We slid into one of the booths that surrounded a long, central, white table with eight empty seats either side of it. Times, Sunday Times
The child was finally found huddled inside a flat with her mother, surrounded by bin bags full of rotting food.
These products are surrounded by considerable mystique and are often outrageously expensive.
A tall woman in a black dress appeared from a rear room surrounded by an impressive entourage.
My photo below shows the rebuilt anchorage on the east wall in the peaceful churchyard surrounded by the bustle of the city centre.
The Congress likes to cloister its leader in a tower surrounded by loyal party leaders, accessible only to the select few.
Her hands then began to glow, surrounded by an aura of white light.
The farm was set in a valley surrounded by meadows of wild flowers. Times, Sunday Times
These simple wooden huts provide guests with an idyllic getaway on a peaceful lake surrounded by woods. Times, Sunday Times
It is surrounded by parkland, including a bewitching rose garden. Times, Sunday Times
The stand is surrounded on both sides by steep slopes of sandstone talus.
It's a quiet residential backwater surrounded by old Victorian terraces.
Given the hype that surrounded the 200m freestyle, that was a tough undertaking.
Instead Schodt recreates the social and cultural milieus that surrounded MacDonald at various stages of his life.
As quick as thought the tent was struck, the pegs wrenched from the ground, and the ghazi surrounded, overpowered, secured, and incidentally in due course hanged. The Story of the Guides
Although she had been told that the mygale sometimes ate small birds, her short experience in the Amazon had taught her that not many creatures - insects and piranha excepted - attacked unless hungry, provoked, trodden upon or surrounded by others of their species. River Of Desire
The castle is surrounded by a metal fence, and all of the entrances to it are welded shut by some of his servants to prevent anyone from coming or going.
A tower rises from the ground, surrounded by mirrors. Times, Sunday Times
Dublin, in case we have forgotten, is built on the inlet of a large river and is surrounded by numerous bays and inlets and has a vast well-sheltered harbour.
The place which is surrounded by rock faces is the ideal destination for cragsmen.
But I now see I've felt unhappy whenever I've been surrounded by silence – as I was as an undergraduate in London – and been content when sound is at hand: such as in my uncle's two-storey house in Kolkata, and in the second-storey flat in Bandra in suburban Mumbai to which my parents moved after my father retired. Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation
The Earth is not important in the cosmos, it is a tiny speck surrounded by this vast emptiness. Times, Sunday Times
This morning it was calm and clear save for a light misty veil of ice crystals through which the moon shone with scarce clouded brilliancy, surrounded with bright cruciform halo and white paraselene. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
The Island of St. Germain, the objective of the action, is a low mound of earth surrounded by swamps and was athwart the division zone of advance.
Book of Hours begins with an image of the twin towers, protrusive amongst the mid-rise buildings that surrounded them at ground zero. Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed
The popular lady, who worked as a sacristan in Portlaw for many years, was surrounded by family and friends for a party at her home.
An antique four-poster bed dominated the room, surrounded by abstract watercolor paintings in vivid jewel tones. Rogue Oracle
Sometimes we find ourselves surrounded by confusing options, too deeply immersed in our problems to know "which way is up. Christianity Today
Fields surrounded the entire village, surrounded in turn by forest, thinned by woodcutting and clearance for pastures.
He was surrounded by tall skyscrapers, their towering heights lost in the inky blackness of a night sky.
On one occasion he was discovered by the night watchman surrounded by neat piles of bits and pieces of a film projector.
The film's biggest dose of reality (and arguably its biggest draw) comes from the live, honest-to-goodness sharks that surrounded Travis and Ryan for two days during shooting.
The circular, hypaethral shrine stands surrounded by paddy fields with a big tank for ritual bathing near it.
The cable has a copper wire surrounded by a plastic sheath.
Being surrounded by seniors affords me a birds-eye view of what it looks like to live fully while you still can. Karen Talavera: Before You Die
In the cosy consulting room the children are surrounded by familiar objects.
Hydrostats are characterized by a central volume of pressurized incompressible fluid surrounded by a membrane in tension; all amniote intromittent organs include a central space surrounded by a tensile membrane.
Kirk Douglas, surrounded by the toast of young, snobby elite, was seen at hot Chelsea nightclub Aria.
Burglars were caught red-handed surrounded by computers that they were intending to steal from a business.
He moved through the crowd schmoozing and smiling, surrounded by an arc of secret service agents, his suit jacket tossed saucily over his shoulder.
It had now assimilated a very large number of patterns, sipping at - the assorted radiances that surrounded it, and in the process discovering that some were far" "tastier"? Starchild Omnibus
He infiltrates MI5 and prospers at the heart of the establishment, but in the end he is exposed as a spy and whiles away his final days sick, surrounded by empty gin bottles and memories, answering a young reporter's questions.
There is something playfully provocative about a man extolling the virtues of privacy while surrounded by a cabal of at least 20 people. Times, Sunday Times
The building is surrounded by walls and the visitor enters through the great bell tower gateway.
My force was standing knee-deep in mutilated bodies, surrounded by the guttural moans of dying people, looking into the eyes of children bleeding to death with their wounds burning in the sun and being invaded by maggots and flies," he later wrote. Bystanders to Genocide
The house is surrounded by vast tracts of woodland.
The swimming pool is set well down below a high retaining wall and surrounded by cypress hedges. The Education of a Gardener
To perform this experiment a little oil of turpentine was placed at the bottom of a glass tube surrounded with boiling liquid air.
The barn on the property was surrounded by police officers drawing their weapons.
Helen Day is haunted by visions of herself surrounded by flames, as a dark-haired man watches her burn. Angels' Blood Countdown: Shannon K Butcher - Burning Alive ARC
Callisto's surface is icy and has some large impact craters and basins surrounded by concentric rings.
From time immemorial, in hot and rainy lands, a hypaethral court, either round or square, surrounded by a covered portico, was used for the double purpose of church and mart, — a place where God and Mammon were worshipped turn by turn. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Tankadhar's village falls under Lapanga gram panchayat which is surrounded by industrial units whose dependency on ground water has gone up in recent times. The Hindu - Front Page
Harold Ings, 86, a bombardier with the Royal Artillery was one of the soldiers whose unit was surrounded by Germans in occupied France.
The building is surrounded on three sides by the pink-brown textured walls of old quarry workings, so that the archives are held in a granite embrace.
Mary Leapor was an only child, but she grew up surrounded by a large extended family.
The cliffs were barely visible now, plunging downwards to a broad inlet spanned by many bridges and surrounded by a sprawling port. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
The house today is surrounded by rustic cabins for visitors plus fishing ponds and nature trails. Times, Sunday Times
He said Paton, who was gay, manipulated young men using power and drugs and surrounded himself with "ned" henchmen. Undefined
He leaped onto an outcropping that was surrounded by deep pools of briny water. End of Time
I’m trying to stay very optimistic and excited about the whole thing, but deep down I know that I’m going down in a blaze of gunfire, in a handbasket, that is on fire, and filled with electric eels, in the midst of a meteor shower, surrounded by my mother’s nagging voice, only to end it all by being impaled on a wrought iron fence. Whitehelmet Diary Entry
Forbearing to engage in the open field, where the gain would lie wholly with the enemy, he lay stoutly embattled on ground where the citizens must reap advantage; since, as he doggedly persisted, to march out meant to be surrounded on every side; whereas to stand at bay where every defile gave a coign of vantage, would give him mastery complete. 46 Agesilaus
The aptly titled venue was surrounded by a huge gorge, rolling bluffs and a meandering river.
Surrounded by this changeless landscape, one can imagine the world as it was many thousands of years ago.
I was constantly surrounded by people who were such an intrinsic part of my life. Times, Sunday Times
"My village is surrounded by taniwha," she says.
At Christmas we're always surrounded by lots of lovely food and drink.
(Taste, July 9): A bitter debate surrounded the announcement of the Bollingen Prize to the profascist and anti-Semitic Ezra Pound for" The Pisan Cantos, "judged by a panel of highly regarded poets to represent the best poetry of 1948. Art Stands Apart From the Artist
They are also surrounded by a reservoir of fuel which allows them to accrete material right up to the Eddington Limit.
Sprinkled all down the mountain sides were fair white villas, or wooden châlet-like houses, with their terraces and gardens, and most of them surrounded by trees, of which the eucalyptus was the most common. The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911
They were surrounded by miles of forest, moose and black bear, and few people.
Deep in the heart of Central India there is a wild forest surrounded by sheer 1,200 feet high cliffs.
The atrocities of the Second World War coupled with developments in genetics, robotics, and space exploration (just to mention a few) are reflected in nihilism and existentialism philosophies, presenting the image of a man as a fluctuant entity, surrounded by relative values, incapable of seeking ultimate truths and haunted by the disintegration of ideologies that once he has held sacred. POSTMODERN LITERATURE:
You want to be surrounded by a low buzz of excitement and anticipation. Times, Sunday Times
A virus is a small packet of infectious nucleic acid material surrounded by a protein coat.
Thinking that a few motivational platitudes and clichés will save them, the rest of the band plod on, uninspired and surrounded by yes men.
Coke's chemists still work behind smoked glass surrounded by security guards.
He orientated himself slowly, like a simpleton, arms outstretched, turning gradually as if surrounded by tormentors. THE LAST RAVEN
I'm surrounded by the positive effects of hip-hop culture. Times, Sunday Times
Some instinctive appreciation of this fact may have given rise to the mystique which surrounded ￡40 a year in contemporary culture.
He was surrounded by leftists among all of his relatives.
After leaving us they had attacked him, throwing several boomerangs and waddies at him; he had only one barrel of his gun loaded with shot; they all spread out and surrounded him, gradually approaching from all sides. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
The site lies in the city's industrial belt, surrounded by featureless new apartment blocks.
It is terraced, surrounded by hurdle fences, furnished with parasols, umbrella heaters and plants.
Besides being segmented, the body wall of annelids is characterized by being made up of both circular and longitudinal muscle fibers surrounded by a moist, acellular cuticle that is secreted by an epidermal epithelium.
The shackles of my physical body had faded away and instead I was free and floating above it, surrounded by a bright white light. The Sun
I was overwhelmed and humbled by the magnitude of what surrounded me.
Even so I seemed at every point of contact to be surrounded by abrasive people intent on disturbing my peace, my comfort, and my equable nature.
Leaving the hot desert behind, we waded and splashed in some of the pools fed by plumelike waterfalls, surrounded by flowers and ferns, and canopied at places by reeds. The Shepherd’s Song
Like most other farms in Anglo-Saxon England, Linstede consists of a hall and outbuildings, surrounded by fields and pastures.
These contain a core of metal surrounded by hard rubber - no doubt they could cause a lot of damage if fired at close range. Times, Sunday Times
The usual hoopla surrounded the arrival of the pop star.
The field of nanotechnology has over the last decade or so been surrounded by considerable hype.
Who is he whose hair is of the carroty hue? whose eyes, across a snubby bunch of a nose, are perpetually scowling at each other; who has a hump-back and a hideous mouth, surrounded with bristles, and crammed full of jutting yellow odious teeth. A Legend of the Rhine
Oliver becomes someone to whom things happen and his innate goodness and innocence palls when he's surrounded by so many more vibrant and colourful characters.
The body that curves itself to the brokenness it is surrounded by. Christianity Today
Once he was sure he was out of eyeshot of the tobacconist he dropped the pack of cigarettes, unopened, into one of the discreetly placed rubbish bins surrounded by unnaturally flourishing pot plants.
As Honey came back with a plate of ‘bhurji’, a group of policemen, who were probably on bandobast duty for the Independence Day, surrounded her.
For €11 between two, you get a dish of melted chocolate surrounded by fresh strawberries, mango, banana and madeleines.
He is very pious and self-reliant, which is provocative of bigotry and hot temper; and surrounded and approached on all sides by clever and often unscrupulous financiers and speculators, his scutcheon has worn wonderfully well, and his character and reputation passed through many fiery ordeals. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899
The DNA is enclosed in a nucleocapsid, or core antigen, which is surrounded by a spherical envelope (surface antigen).
• Then oogonia are surrounded other cells that form the stroma. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
(According to the 9/11 Commission Report published last month, an in-ternal agency analysis was titled "Khalid Shaykh Mohammed's Threat Reporting -- Precious Truths Surrounded by a Bodyguard of Lies.") Al Qaeda's 'Pre-Election' Plot
She was always surrounded by a circle of admirers.
Suddenly, and as it were without warning, we are confronted by a fierce and warlike nation, for whom it is a paramount moral obligation to refrain from the participatory heathen cults by which they were surrounded on all sides; for whom moreover precisely that moral obligation is conceived as the very foundation of the race, the very marrow of its being. Sources of Theology in Job « Unknowing
He inhabits a world where historical activity is surrounded by supernatural forces, where the numinous constantly interpenetrates the dull sublunary world of common sense.
Jillian says: In a way my initial exploration into the people we call the Celts had nothing to do with the Celts themselves but more to do with my growing inclination and curiosity with the world and events that surrounded them. Hosks Half Hour
There are four acres of wildflower meadow surrounded by woodland.
The community of over 7,200 is surrounded by apple orchards and is the home of the national tree-planting holiday, Arbor Day. Archive 2006-01-01
The house was surrounded by veld, with a spruit flowing out of the dam, and a long tree-lined avenue running from the present day Beyers Naude Drive to the house.
Kenyan police and coastguards tracked the speedboat and were reported to have surrounded it. Times, Sunday Times
Red House today stands secluded behind a pleasantly weathered red-brick wall surrounded by a forest of bungalows and semi-detached houses.
The result is a place which is rather incongruous, with only a small town centre surrounded by large numbers of houses.
Anne-Marie held up her drawing of a red house with a charcoal chimney surrounded by green lawn.
The aim was for a Continental feel - a bustling central square surrounded by restaurants, bars and boutiques.
The tamarind is prized for its pods, which grow in clusters and contain very small beans, surrounded by an attractively sour/acid pulp.
The ore shoot is mainly in the Molas Formation and is surrounded by a silicified envelope that contains galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, and pyrite.
Houses were few and far between beyond the village, surrounded on all sides by treeless, mountainy bog. FALSE MERMAID

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