encasing

present participle of encase

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of encasing For instance, fusion doesn’t require all the expensive, nuclear-grade concrete that creates a protective dome encasing traditional nuclear radiation. Jordan Blum, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025 The film centered on the Environmental Protection Agency encasing the Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield in a dome after Homer taints the area’s water supply. Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025 The silky gel gets along with every curl type (our testers ranged from 2A to 3C), encasing spirals of all patterns in a pliable cast that helps keep them buoyant. Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025 The open air feeling inside Palm Tree Club KC revolves around a blue fusion quartzite bar encasing a wavy bar-to-ceiling backbar acting as the spiral centerpiece for the entire space. Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 All around her, linen, encasing her, like a caul. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025 This procedure resulted in the formation of a fine powder consisting of microscopic particles – each microparticle in turn consisted of a smooth MoNi shell encasing a protein core. New Atlas, 22 Aug. 2025 Freeman tied on an apron, unfurled an olive-green wrap encasing his chef’s knife and set up behind a metal counter facing the empty dining room. Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2025 After thousands of hours of digital reconstruction, the 3D scans clearly depicted tissue-thin bones encasing organs and musculature preserved in unprecedented detail. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for encasing
Verb
  • There was no information immediately available about the condition of the building housing the dentist’s office .
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That difference shifts housing from 27 percent of a retiree’s budget in surplus states to 32 percent in shortfall states.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Two big deck houses were erected enclosing bunks for 30, a galley and a ladies’ lounge.
    Eric DuVall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In December 1967, eleven years before The Sweet Dove Died was published, Barbara Pym wrote to Philip Larkin, enclosing her first draft.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Leslie Cheek’s formerly private estate opened as a public garden and fine art center in 1960 and today is host to nearly a dozen gardens surrounding the family’s Georgian mansion, which has become a museum.
    Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That rapid rise underscores the investment frenzy surrounding the leaders of a technology with the potential to transform industries and economies.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Riding a pair of fourth-down stops on defense, including a goal-line stand, and the 72-yard touchdown drive capped by Madsen, Boise State headed into halftime trailing just 14-7.
    Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Some of the cast remains in the music industry to this day, including country singer and actor Charles Esten and pop singer Lennon Stella.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Forcing them out means confining most of Gaza's population to overcrowded encampments along the coast further south lacking food, medical supplies and space.
    Steven Scheer, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Bruni Tedeschi captures her in that vortex — her pulmonary illness confining her to bed one minute and her artistic drives reanimating her with defiant spirit the next.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Amoedo and Martí also displayed on the enveloping 180-degree LED screen a series of Madrid cityscapes from dusk, warm sunlight still caught on occasional buildings, to night, cars trawling down its central Paseo de la Castellana.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The second collection is Hypnose, which features sweeping sculptural curves and enveloping shapes along with its trademark gold innovation with a velvety, silky texture.
    Anthony DeMarco, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Encasing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encasing. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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