Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ensheathed
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Legendary Hungary team denied their crowning glory The Hungarian team of the early 1950s was one of the greatest in the history of football, with their dominance best encapsulated by their two myth-shattering thrashings of England in consecutive years.—
Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
5 June 2026 -
The name was chosen for the release because even though the styles of the three artists commissioned for the 1926 and this latest release are quite different, Macallan felt the style encapsulated the common essence behind the three artworks.—
Mark Littler,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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Occupiers of apartments and houses had grown used to all these sounds, which, far from disturbing their sleep, cocooned it.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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But others enjoy seeing drivers add personality into a sport where emotion is often hard to spot during on-track sessions, because the drivers are cocooned in safety equipment for their own good.—
Alex Kalinauckas,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
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Sitting in the dark press junket room surrounded by cameras and television screens, the brothers Wayans bounce jokes off each other and finish each other’s sentences like identical twins.—
Datwon Thomas,
VIBE.com,
6 June 2026
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The current patio is surrounded by plants and trees too.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
6 June 2026
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Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.—
Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
4 June 2026
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Her daughter, Soraya, had taken refuge there with her three children, Christina, Charbel, and Elias, after fleeing Debl, a Christian border village now encircled by Israeli troops.—
Euan Ward,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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But the idea of a single galaxy’s stars being enfolded into the Milky Way is intriguing and worthy of further study, Battersby said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
23 May 2026
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Smoke and blackness enfolded him.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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And even in Moscow, which open-source intelligence analysts say has been ringed by more than 100 air defense systems amid Ukraine's expanding strike campaign, the threat from Kyiv appears to be more present than ever before.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
4 June 2026
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Visitors enter through 2nd-century Hadrian’s Arch and find the Temple of Zeus, the Hippodrome, the Temple of Artemis and a forum ringed by 56 Corinthian columns.—
Hanna Wickes,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
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“Ensheathed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ensheathed. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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