Sample Sentences for
encompass
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    The class will encompass topics from ancient history to modern politics.
    encompass = include
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    The new evidence is causing officials to broaden their investigation to encompass the finances of all family members.
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    Perrington's eyes fell upon the black ring on his left hand and darkened, as if his pupils had expanded to encompass all of each eye.  (source)
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    Some zones were so large that they encompassed several planets, while others covered only a few kilometers on the surface of a single world.  (source)
    encompassed = included
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    This gift goes beyond eye-hand coordination, encompassing the ability to understand physical relationships, to think in three dimensions.  (source)
    encompassing = inclusive of (it includes)
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    The chamber inside could encompass my house ten times, stilts and all.  (source)
    encompass = hold (surround)
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    I feel the bed shift and he encompasses my wrist with his hand and removes my arm from over my eyes.†  (source)
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    The old twilight-scather Found the hoard's joyance standing all open, 2270 E'en he that, burning, seeketh to burgs, The evil drake, naked, that flieth a night-tide, With fire encompass'd; of him the earth-dwellers Are strongly adrad; wont is he to seek to The hoard in the earth, where he the gold heathen Winter-old wardeth; nor a whit him it betters.†  (source)
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    But this encompassment of her own characterization, based on shreds of convention, peopled by phantoms and voices antipathetic to her, was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy—a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason.†  (source)
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    Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "It encompasseth" in older English, today we say "It encompasses."
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    Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this"—I gestured encompassingly—"will have been for naught.†  (source)
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    The garden part of the city with its geometrical arrangement of squares encompassed the three-square-mile historic district, which was built before the Civil War.  (source)
    encompassed = included
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    There was one all-encompassing line, which wound across the country and back through time.  (source)
    encompassing = inclusive (covering everything)
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