Examples of encircle in a Sentence
A crowd of reporters encircled the mayor.
communication satellites encircling the earth
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More vine designs encircle one wrist and finger.
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Kara Nesvig, Allure, 9 Mar. 2026
The sprawling Discover campus features a complex of four buildings encircling a large retention pond.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
There dense clouds of dust and spindly filaments of cold molecular gas, the basic matter from which stars form, encircle the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
Much like snowballs are composed of clusters of snowflakes, planetesimals likely arose within the disks of dust that encircled the newborn sun from clouds of pebble-sized objects pulled together by their mutual gravitational attraction.
—Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Feb. 2026
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Kara Nesvig, Allure, 9 Mar. 2026
The sprawling Discover campus features a complex of four buildings encircling a large retention pond.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
There dense clouds of dust and spindly filaments of cold molecular gas, the basic matter from which stars form, encircle the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
Much like snowballs are composed of clusters of snowflakes, planetesimals likely arose within the disks of dust that encircled the newborn sun from clouds of pebble-sized objects pulled together by their mutual gravitational attraction.
—Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Feb. 2026
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“Encircle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/encircle. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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encircle
verb
en·cir·cle
in-ˈsər-kəl 
1
: to form a circle around : surround
2
: to go completely around
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