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Sentence Examples Late-night rows throughout the festivities threatened to engulf innocent bystanders and shocked tourists. 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. The most common type of granulocyte, the neutrophils, move to infected parts of the body to engulf and consume invading bacteria. 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. She would not allow herself to wallow in the misery that had been threatening to engulf her since his death. Such men must be honoured and respected, lest chaos engulf the navel of the world yet again. In patients with chronic septic lung disease, the bronchial arteries are usually enlarged and tortuous and may engulf the pulmonary hila. In the rare moments when the self-reproach would ease up, grief or dejection would engulf him. Why was I standing on a porch in the middle of some forsaken jungle waiting for the night to engulf me? A baying mob of youths hurled abuse at firefighters as they battled a suspicious rubbish fire threatening to engulf an electricity pylon. Daunting in scale and hung low on the wall, these paintings can engulf our field of vision. Residents are directed to guard against the threat of fire as flames continue to engulf many areas in New South Wales. These reforms have been well signalled and, not before time, it looks as if the sector is waking up to the challenges threatening to engulf it. Pedestrians were stopped in their tracks, and cars came to a standstill as the huge blanket of smoke threatened to engulf the whole town. My mind was sending too many thoughts, too many flashes and words, too much for me to take in, fatigue threatening to engulf me. Now, to the leak investigation that threatens to engulf a very big fish at the White House. He's certainly going to try, despite the escalating violence that threatens to engulf him. He, aged 47, awoke to find flames threatening to engulf the downstairs of his home. For example, the wispy foliage of cosmos will engulf spiky salvia flowers and is a contrast to the rounded leaves of pelargoniums. I dove under and let the heat engulf me and sooth my muscles that still ached from the lack of sleep and heavy lifting I had done yesterday. Show More Sentences The vertical mullions and stainless steel double chimney recall the pine trees that surround and almost engulf the house. Just as the tornado was about to engulf me, it lifted up into the air, and retracted into the clouds. Barns have been blown away by terrible tornadoes, big waves engulf houses and boats, forests are on fire. The division among and within the political class seems to engulf the country in a battle to win over political power at all cost. However, only and when people are committed to the process will desertification no longer engulf us. We feared in our minds that trees might fall on our house and the roaring sea might engulf us. People can swamp you, engulf you, catch up and carry you to places you don't want to go. 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. She walks to me, slowly, flinchingly, and let's me engulf her in a hug. 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. The trouble with the Bahamas, is that once you are on the limestone rock, it seductively closes your eyes to what can be, as it tries to engulf in its own slow rhythms. He recalled how just the sight of his daughter in the early years had brought his grief flooding to the surface where it had threatened to engulf him. Rose went and sat down, as the memories threatened to engulf her. Residents in a block of flats in Epsom had a narrow escape on Valentine's Day when a fire in a basement flat threatened to engulf the three-storey block. We would slide down the back of a giant wave, again to be met by another giant wave that would engulf the ship. No longer did flaming gobbets become spewed out to engulf and incinerate adjacent objects. In the recesses of the Imperial Court, an intrigue was concocted which came to engulf everybody. Freckle spots may develop into virulent lesions and virulent spots may engulf freckle and hard spot lesions. Other schools have been shuttered because of attacks and threats stemming from the war that continues to engulf the country. Using ethnicity for political ends is a dangerous game that will engulf South Sudan if not contained. Show More Sentences The scale of devastation is now threatening to engulf the amount of resources deployed to control the situation. This timing may have been a mercy, given the fate that was about to engulf Yugoslavia. The shock and the losses that engulf those families are almost beyond belief. When this religious fervour is misdirected by fanatics or manipulated by politicians, conflicts are provoked that tend to engulf everyone. We are going to have to fight against the social torpor that threatens to engulf us. So the new year has dawned, and as regular as the first shark attack of summer, the private health funds have opened their insatiable maws ready to engulf us. That flood will engulf the economy, as those who lose their jobs spend less and those who keep them save more in case they too are sacked. Thus the crisis, if unchecked, may tip towards escalation and engulf the whole region. Conflicts overseas could, if left unchecked over time, expand to engulf our own nation. Loren fought the feeling of helpless panic that threatened to engulf him. 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. I make a BIG pot of coffee and enough toast to engulf the toast rack. Flames will engulf your feet, roasting them with agonizing slowness while a grating metallic voice repeatedly says the name and slogan of a product. Flames engulf the castle, whose turrets begin to crumble and fall. But in his obscurity he's free to make sparse use of gentle wurring noises and allow intermittent glitches to engulf the beauty of his ukulele and string-laden folk songs. Sunlight swarms through and over the pale-green saw grass, plays along the surface, dives down to the dark, mucky bottom, and spreads back up to engulf our little group. This generates the water pressure required to expand its mouth and engulf and filter a huge amount of water and fish. Under normal circumstances, when foreign bacteria infect the body, white blood cells called macrophages engulf the bacteria, then fuse with lysosomes which digest and destroy the bacteria. We had to take further extraordinary steps in the financial sector to respond to a global credit crunch we did not spark, yet which threatened to engulf us if we failed to act. We are cognizant of the fact that a conflict affecting one country can rapidly engulf the entire region because of the social, economic and cultural links that exist among our people. Show More Sentences The technique works by stimulating microglial cells, which form part of the brain's immune system, to engulf and absorb the plaques. The crystal water emanates unearthly hues that engulf the senses. Such is the scale of the catastrophe that may be about to engulf the Labour party in Scotland that commentators and analysts are now deploying apocalyptic imagery to measure it. Depression, divorce and dependency can engulf even old hands – and when Kennedy was elected, he was a 23-year-old from a remote Scottish farming community who'd only been to London twice before. Clive's loquacity, his almost compulsive need to talk and keep conversations going, served to maintain a precarious platform, and when he came to a stop the abyss was there, waiting to engulf him. It was feared a fire he lit at Carnoch Estate in March 2013 would engulf the village of Strontian, Argyll, and it took two days to put out. Some, like neutrophils and macrophages, engulf and chew up microbes. Crown ethers act almost exclusively on positively charged ions, readily unfolding and stretching to engulf their unwitting guests. Until the international community insists on a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, any one of these conflicts has the potential to erupt and engulf the entire region. Commissioner, I implore the European Union to do everything possible to help the region recover from this stagnant state which is also threatening to engulf Poland and the Baltic States. Revolutionary turbulence did engulf much of Europe, centrally Germany, after World War I. However, in no other country did the working class come to power. And this, not from a concept of collective responsibility, but of moral solidarity in the face of the night of evil which seeks to engulf us also today. Nevertheless, there is a branch of hope that the governor and her supporters can cling to as the tides of the media punditocracy engulf them. As proof, The Period argued that the Queen of England would not have left London for the summer in the midst of a war that had the potential to engulf the entire European continent. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was the opening act of the counterrevolutionary tide that would engulf Eastern Europe and then the Soviet Union itself. Forams are abundant in present-day ocean sediments, where they use fingerlike extensions called pseudopods to engulf prey and to explore their surroundings. Specifically, goethite crystals nucleate on these chitin fibers and push aside or engulf the chitin fibers as they grow, influencing their resulting orientation. Examples from Classical Literature Father Hennepin tells us that the stout soul of La Salle quailed before the horrible tumult which threatened to engulf him. Some dust storms are intercontinental, a few may circle the 33 globe, and occasionally they may engulf entire planets. Now, the idea smote her softened heart that Wilfrid's passion might engulf her if she had no word of sustainment from Merthyr. Then, like erl-king in the German legends, they broaden out to engulf their opponent. Over this body of this hero, rolls the horrible flood that is to engulf France. But were he wrecked, the living water would engulf him, helpless, and he would indeed be lost. He could not reach me, yet, O-Tar, may Iss engulf me if he did not drag me to him helpless as an unhatched egg. Together with our friends and allies, we will work together to shape change, lest it engulf us. We are in a cavern of fire, and in another moment it will engulf us. By this time the sea was running inches high, and threatening every moment to engulf the frail bark. Was it possible so slight an antagonist could engulf the battle cruiser? As the high watery walls came rolling in, and, at their highest, tumbled into surf, they looked as if the least would engulf the town. But at this moment his eyes closed involuntarily, to receive more resolutely the terrible avalanche which was about to fall on his head, and to engulf his life. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of engulf? Words that rhyme with engulf What is the past tense of engulf? What is the noun for engulf? Translations for engulf Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words enguard engrossments engrossment engrossingly engrossing engrosses engulfed engulfing engulfment engulfs enhance enhanced 6-letter Words Starting With e en eng engu engul