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How to use engulfment in a sentence

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These animals possess effective defense systems against microbes and parasites which involve engulfment of bacteria into specific cells.
This new view could have medical importance if physicians learn how to prevent the rapid engulfment of seemingly dying cells.
His responses to open-ended questions revealed an overall perception of engulfment by the condition.
Children who did well understood that they were not responsible for their parents and were able to avoid engulfment in their illness.
It sounds like your underlying fears of rejection and engulfment are controlling your life and not letting you share love.
This Chapter, which concerns portable tanks, contains some requirements with regard to engulfment in fire and the fitting of safety devices.
If plates are covered, the covering shall be total and remain effective after 15 minutes' engulfment in fire.
The plate shall not become detached from its mount in the event of a 15 minutes' engulfment in fire.
The hazard identification number and the UN number shall be indelible and shall remain legible after 15 minutes' engulfment in fire.
The Fc portion of antigen-antibody complexes can activate complement, which enhances engulfment of pathogens by phagocytes or direct damage of certain bacteria.
Nevertheless, we know that the combustion efficiencies remain high in this regime as well due largely to the very powerful bouyant engulfment mechanism of air induction and the overwhelming reactivity of the reactants.
Some genetic evidence now links three big groups to a single ancestral engulfment of chlorophyll c, Simpson says.
When baffle tips are just below the surface, unrestricted eddy motion facilitates engulfment of surface materials into the bulk liquid.
While the exact mechanism for escaping phagocytosis is unclear, it may occur because capsules make bacterial surface components more slippery, helping the bacterium to escape engulfment by phagocytic cells.
Mounds occur within structured shelf areas, engulfment or narrow straits.
See Silva, Toward a Global Idea of Race, 2007, specifically Part II, for definitions of strategy of particularization, strategy of intervention, strategy of engulfment.
The new guidance recognised that non-Cargill staff needed to be made aware of the risks of engulfment, and that hauliers should stay in their lorries.
At the very core of his strategy was to save at least two to three of the bigger Princely states from Congress engulfment, in the main Hyderabad and Bhopal.
The rate at which pots become incapacitated can be affected by their rate of decomposition, bioerosion, and engulfment through encrustation by sessile organisms.
Examples from Classical Literature
The first effect is instantaneous, then the engulfment becomes more gradual.
The central portions of the dome have since been removed by engulfment, or denudation, or by both these causes.
This engulfment is the sepulchre which assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a living man.
It was like their abandoning him upon the sandspit, to the threatening engulfment of the tide.
This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe.
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