How to Use encapsulate in a Sentence

encapsulate

verb
  • The contaminated material should be encapsulated and removed.
  • No amount of words or pictures can encapsulate my love for you over the past 11 years...
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 1 Oct. 2023
  • And, the deep brown cacao nibs hue truly encapsulates the cozy essence of the season.
    Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Trademarks encapsulate your brand's identity—the name, the logo, the ethos.
    Mohaimina Haque, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • More than writing a hit, Lil Nas X encapsulated a new kind of road to stardom.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Then take a page out of Jim's playbook and encapsulate one of his essential items in Jello.
    Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
  • My hope with this series is to encapsulate all the things that make rom-com novels fun — chemistry, friendship, road trips!
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
  • But no anecdote better encapsulates the Jerry Jones approach than what happened in the first round of the ‘14 draft.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • One standout sequence that encapsulates the spirit of the film involves the tiefling druid Doric, played by Sophia Lillis.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Both willing to think outside the box and take risks, this duo encapsulates the spirit of London as the autumn/winter 2024 shows play out in the background.
    Alice Newbold, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The collection encapsulates the growth she’s made over the years—and solidified for her that DomoINK is here to stay.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The pointy front end features a thin LED light bar stretching the width of the car, with the main headlights once again housed within a black plastic piece that stretches around the bumper to encapsulate the front wheels.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The film encapsulates hundreds of looks, both from the early Seventies and Eighties, when Arthur is looking back on his youth.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Micah could be the strangest looking being on earth and I still would have been encapsulated by her presence.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Each of those pods will encapsulate a successive number of days within one of those years.
    Amon Warmann, Variety, 7 Apr. 2023
  • That breadth encapsulates Claud: smart, witty and always willing to go deep.
    Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Those tests showed that a special encapsulating material was the key to extending the lifetime of the devices to over a year.
    IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2023
  • From now until the end of their dive, the five of them would be encapsulated, separated completely from the world’s water and air.
    Alex Christian, WIRED, 29 June 2023
  • The space encapsulates happiness and joy, as the nursery walls are painted a light blue and feature posters of the alphabet and animals.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
  • When asked whether there was a song that encapsulated such experiences, Djeghalian paused for a moment then reached for his phone.
    Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • That play perfectly encapsulated the game for the Jayhawks, where nothing seemed to go their way.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Goggins, in turn, encapsulates Joe’s go-along get-along nature.
    Lily Moayeri, Spin, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Chief among these are the bonus levels, fever dreams that encapsulate the acid-house-style madness of 90s special stages that shared precisely nothing with the core game they were attached to.
    Matt Gardner, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Home design is all about having fun right now—and this fashionable trend encapsulates that.
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Feb. 2024
  • While everyone escaped, the group was left standing outside in the snow, watching flames encapsulate their home.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 25 May 2023
  • But the agreement encapsulates the painful choice people here now face: Flee their fragile sliver of sand or stay and fight the rising waters, one sea wall or stretch of reclaimed land at a time.
    Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Every lyric of every song used on the show perfectly encapsulates that moment in the plot, almost as if Han wrote this show as an ode to her favorite albums.
    Bella Arnold, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The notable absence of Trump to some extent encapsulated the race more broadly.
    Marianne Levine, Dylan Wells, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
  • Providers say that there is no agreed upon list that encapsulates all the scenarios that could fall under the lethal fetal anomalies exception or when the life of the mother may be at risk.
    Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Aug. 2023
  • In its state of disrepair, the building at the foot of the Sundown base encapsulates the condition of the resort after nearly a decade of neglect — at least In Reed Hastings’ eyes.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023

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