How to Use encircle in a Sentence
encircle
verb- A crowd of reporters encircled the mayor.
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The elastic bands of the sheet should now be encircling your hand.
—Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
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Two feet of wire then form the fence and 2 feet lie on the ground, encircling your garden.
—BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
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The Wicked star flashed a green and chrome encircled manicure to end the night.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 23 Feb. 2025
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The encircling orangerie brings the outside in through the seasons, with trees in zinc planters.
—Howard Christian, ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
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And then encircle the plant with a small soil berm to hold water in the future.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
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Her blue eyes shone from her taut face, all encircled by a bird’s nest of frizzy gray hair.
—Elizabeth M. Lynch, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024
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The over 90-mile pathway encircles the city, passing through over a dozen parks.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2024
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Made of thin brass, the ring’s crown includes more than two dozen small seed pearls that encircle a plate of beveled glass.
—Stuart Sanders, The Courier-Journal, 13 June 2019
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Silva was in charge of the 58th Division, one of the groups that encircled the final stronghold of the Tamil Tiger rebels in the last stages of the war.
—Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
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From the bed of a white pick-up, Lladrovci saw a large expanse of dirt encircled by a chain-link fence.
—The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
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With the boat and turtle aligned, Benson managed to encircle him with the hoop and enclose him in the net.
—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
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Cleveland is encircled by calming green spaces, and some are in the heart of the city, too.
—Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2019
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The lake has a boat ramp on the north side, and the road encircles the water, granting access to the entire shoreline.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 11 June 2024
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The gravest risk for Ukrainian forces is that they would be encircled, trapped and killed in large numbers.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 4 Mar. 2023
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The gravest risk for Ukrainian forces is that they would be encircled, trapped, and killed in large numbers.
—BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
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Rimawi’s desk occupies the back corner of the room, and a ring of chairs encircles it.
—Ismail Ibrahim, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2023
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Watch for the new badge — which frees Buick’s three heraldic shields from the chrome band that used to encircle them on upcoming Buicks.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2023
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That means the roots grow up into the mulch and encircle the tree, rather than out into the surrounding soil.
—Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2022
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Russian forces are entrenched on the eastern edge of the city and are seeking to encircle it.
—Laurence Norman, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
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The two of them share a lagoon and are encircled by one barrier reef.
—Maggie Shipstead, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2023
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Some of the nation saw a total solar eclipse, when the moon is encircled by a ring of light, or a corona, from the sun.
—The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2024
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With this type of pan, the cups are attached to a frame, but not to each other, so the heat can fully encircle each cup.
—Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 23 Dec. 2020
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Police scaled the fence encircling the pool and saw a body at the bottom, Medina said.
—Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 4 July 2018
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The Russian aim is to slowly cut off or encircle the bulk of Ukraine’s army east of the Dnipro River and starve it of new supplies.
—New York Times, 1 May 2022
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Stores and restaurants encircle the base, and lush green vines spill through openings in the structure.
—Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2023
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Dark skin encircled the woman’s eyes, and her skin had the pallor of someone who had been sick for a long time.
—Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
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Technically, the polar vortex refers to a band of winds that encircle the Arctic and keep the cold locked far to the North.
—Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 10 Jan. 2021
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The Army encircled rebellious neighborhoods near Homs and shelled them to the ground.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
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Although dark, thick liner encircled her lash line, her lipstick was a more muted, peach-toned nude.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 14 Feb. 2025
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