How to Use encircle in a Sentence

encircle

verb

• A crowd of reporters encircled the mayor.
• The elastic bands of the sheet should now be encircling your hand.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
• Two feet of wire then form the fence and 2 feet lie on the ground, encircling your garden.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• The encircling orangerie brings the outside in through the seasons, with trees in zinc planters.
  — Howard Christian, ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
• And then encircle the plant with a small soil berm to hold water in the future.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• 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
• The gravest risk for Ukrainian forces is that they would be encircled, trapped, and killed in large numbers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
• Rimawi’s desk occupies the back corner of the room, and a ring of chairs encircles it.
  — Ismail Ibrahim, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Russian forces are entrenched on the eastern edge of the city and are seeking to encircle it.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
• The two of them share a lagoon and are encircled by one barrier reef.
  — Maggie Shipstead, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2023
• Stores and restaurants encircle the base, and lush green vines spill through openings in the structure.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2023
• 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
• The Army encircled rebellious neighborhoods near Homs and shelled them to the ground.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• As Negrete looks the man over, crowds of people encircle the tent, craning to see the day’s injured.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• At the time, two Russian flanking maneuvers to the northwest and southwest of the city were close to encircling Bakhmut.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• The lounge’s bold black-and-white-striped flooring leads to a black round bar encircled by navy stools with dangling light bulbs overhead.
  — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• The bar encircles the indoor stage where there are 17 stations.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 27 Mar. 2023
• Some cars were stuck in the same spot for five hours as blowing snow encircled the vehicles.
  — CBS News, 13 Jan. 2024
• The brush's three bristle heads are made to encircle each tooth, cleaning from every angle at the same time.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
• Cut pieces of clear contact paper ($7, Target) a few inches taller than the pots and wide enough to encircle it.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
• The area is also encircled by glass flame bowls, which light up the space at night for after-sunset swimming.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 May 2023
• For the other photograph, Webb took a wider field of view that shows two of Jupiter’s moons, Amalthea and Adrastea, and the very faint rings of space dust that encircle the planet.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
• The big screens encircling Bryant-Denny Stadium cut to a handful of fans.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• Cut pieces of clear contact paper ($7, Target) a few inches taller than the pots and wide enough to encircle it. Peel off the backing.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2022
• Many travelers choose to explore the area via the Ring of Kerry, the scenic drive that encircles the peninsula.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2024
• The fighters here have been hanging on for weeks, lobbing 122mm shells at the Russians straining to encircle the city.
  — Steve Hendrix and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
• Two straws of white Sonora wheat are tucked gently into the brown ribbon that encircles the hat's straw brim.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
• The two mega studios in Burbank were encircled by pickets.
  — William Earl, Variety, 2 May 2023
• Instead of chairs arranged in a linear fashion, guests encircled to fully take in the space.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 6 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024