encased; encasing; encases
: to enclose in or as if in a case
Synonyms of encase
Examples of encase in a Sentence
Ice encased the trees and power lines after the storm.
fear of the outside world can encase a person just as surely as stone walls
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Over time, a soft split bun encased the sausage, creating something portable to be eaten standing at a fairground, during a factory break, or in the bleachers at a baseball game.
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Ashley Rose Young, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 June 2026
The plastic that encases laundry pods dissolves and rinses out with the excess water.
—Katelyn Chef, Southern Living, 18 June 2026
Even still, most of its diminutive size was just plastic packaging, encasing the far tinier, unfathomably dense network of billions of transistors embedded in silicon.
—Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
The 360-degree curved glass walls encasing the galleries offered many glimpses of a face that belonged to me but somehow wasn’t mine.
—Stephanie Shih
june 17, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
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Ashley Rose Young, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 June 2026
The plastic that encases laundry pods dissolves and rinses out with the excess water.
—Katelyn Chef, Southern Living, 18 June 2026
Even still, most of its diminutive size was just plastic packaging, encasing the far tinier, unfathomably dense network of billions of transistors embedded in silicon.
—Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
The 360-degree curved glass walls encasing the galleries offered many glimpses of a face that belonged to me but somehow wasn’t mine.
—Stephanie Shih
june 17, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for encase
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“Encase.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/encase. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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