How to Use engulf in a Sentence

engulf

verb

• The valley was engulfed in a thick fog.
• The home was fully engulfed by flames, the charges said.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
• The green onions were confined to the middle, engulfed in fluffy bread that sprang back with the poke of a finger.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• His wife, Rania, was engulfed with grief over the loss of a beloved sister.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• The mood in Lebanon is tense, as people there wonder whether the country will be engulfed in the war.
  — Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The home, which was engulfed in flames, was next door to a local daycare, FOX 29 said.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Over the next two hours the wind picked up again, and every one of the rental units surrounding the pool became engulfed in flames.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• Deputies and fire crews arrived to find the row of garages engulfed in flames, the department said in a news release.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• In eastern Bihar, scorching heat has engulfed most of the state, leading to 42 deaths in the past two days.
  — Time, 18 June 2023
• South Florida footage showed the 18-wheeler engulfed in flames and tipped to one side.
  — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• There was one way out, the winding passage before him, and it was engulfed in flames.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
• The Airbus was a total loss after it was engulfed in flames on the runway, the airline said.
  — Karson Yiu, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2024
• Borges's arm caught fire as flames engulfed the building.
  — CBS News, 2 May 2023
• The haze that has engulfed the region is a result of wildfires in Quebec.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
• Will Brandon Staley show that he’s grown into the job that at times has engulfed him?
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
• On tap this week Fog is expected to engulf much of the Bay Area on Monday morning.
  — Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2023
• That allows just enough time for most bass to fully engulf a crankbait, leading to more hookups.
  — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 21 June 2023
• The trash fire that has engulfed the bullpen is uncontrollable.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Hunter Watson, 23, shared a video of himself boating through a street and passing a house engulfed in flames.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Tsunamis washed away coastlines, raging fires engulfed forests and dust and debris blotted out the sun for months.
  — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Hawaii’s native greenery isn’t supposed to burn, and yet fires engulfed Maui.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 22 Aug. 2023
• With cloud-like softness, you’re always engulfed in fluff.
  — Sarah Kester, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
• When the referee blew the opening whistle, pink smoke engulfed the stands and the stadium came alive.
  — Mariana Duran, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• Its efforts were on full steam in the wake of a diesel pollution scandal that engulfed the German brand.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 28 Nov. 2023
• The truck was unable to stop and struck both vehicles, and all three became engulfed in flames, police said.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
• By that time, the fire had moved more than a mile through town; many buildings on celebrated Front Street were engulfed in flames.
  — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• The upheaval of protests and the mounting chaos of the women’s stories rise in unison with the typhoon that threatens to engulf the maritime port city.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• Firefighters put out the fire, which engulfed both vehicles and burned a roughly 20-by-20-foot patch of brush.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2023
• The fire grew explosively, engulfing up to 150 football fields of land every minute in the first few days.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
• By time firefighters and police arrived, the car was engulfed in flames, which spread to some nearby brush.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024