enveloping

present participle of envelop

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of enveloping Neroli and ambrox, a type of musk that’s found in many popular perfumes for women as well, round the edges of the fragrance and give it a creamy, enveloping suppleness that’s hard to find in most fresh scents. Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2025 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 The fabric glides across your skin with a soft sensuality, enveloping you in a whisper of luxury. Kara Nesvig, Allure, 15 Sep. 2025 Gnawing paranoia inevitably awakens Pynchon’s characters to the matrix of control enveloping their lives. John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025 Next is Boll’s bedroom, a smallish, enveloping cabin. Laura Bannister, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025 In In Farthest Seas, this silence is visual, too, the white of the page surrounding and almost enveloping the brief, revelatory chapters. Brian Robert Moore september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025 Franjou employed a wrapping technique, which involved enveloping raw linen fibers with a finer thread — sometimes repeating the gesture a hundred times until the fiber is completely set. Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enveloping
Verb
  • However, data centers run hot and typically need a lot of water for cooling, which poses critical questions around the suitability of an arid and hot country like Saudi Arabia housing such infrastructure.
    Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Within this context, housing the Gazans will require a radical new approach to post-war reconstruction.
    Shelly Culbertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • At a nutrition center in Camp 15 of Cox’s Bazar – run by Concern Worldwide, with programs from UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) – babies are measured for malnutrition by wrapping a paper tape measure around their tiny arms.
    Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • At the end of the video, a firefighter could be seen wrapping the child up and carrying her into an ambulance to receive further medical care.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sam's Throne Campground and surrounding public areas will remain closed to ensure public safety while the search and monitoring operations continue, according to the release.
    Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Because of this, a close look at the play and the scholarship surrounding it can help make clear the stakes of due process.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Teeming with tennis courts, specimen trees and stone mansions raised from the dirt by 19th-century railroad barons, the suburb makes wealth feel like weather, an ozone layer shrouding everything — ambient, constant and vital.
    New York Times, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The window encasing the passenger compartment is perhaps the most striking aspect, and, if the car is ever built, will have an interesting windshield wiper setup.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Two hundred years later, Slott preserved the historic facade while enclosing the rear of the home in glass to overlook the waterfall that once powered the mill.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In 2004, Rader resumed sending letters, including one to The Wichita Eagle, enclosing Wegerle’s drivers license and photos of the crime scene.
    Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Constraints give creative energy a direction to travel, shaping the search space while also confining it — just enough that exploration becomes deeper, weirder, and more productive.
    Big Think, Big Think, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Peña Lopez and Correa Peña also prevented her from leaving the home by confining her to the room previously used for goats and roosters, the Justice Department said.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As for Elite World Group’s partnership with Asia Kingston, this also extends to the development of tech gadgets, encompassing the likes of earphones, headphones, portable speakers, smartwatches and power banks.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Hanson, the most famous, grew from a commercial vehicles business into a giant encompassing building materials, tobacco, coal and energy.
    Ian King, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Enveloping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enveloping. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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