Sample sentences for ENCOMPASS

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Definition

include in scope; or surround

This group encompasses a wide range of people from different backgrounds

encompasses = includes

She suggests expanding the treaty to encompass large developing nations.
The new evidence is causing officials to broaden their investigation to encompass the finances of all family members.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Bertrand Russell
Lucy faced the situation bravely, though, like most of us, she only faced the situation that encompassed her.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being,
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet

encompassed = contained (surrounded)

Haven't I encompassed it myself?
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Now you've been," and Buddy's gesture encompassed the hill, the pines and the severe, snow-gabled buildings breaking up the rolling landscape, "here."
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
A tearing agony encompassed his breast.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
He passed again and again amid whirring blades and sweet odours of grass, encompassing with narrowing circles the sacred centre of the field.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
Until recently, she had not known what that might encompass in LuLing's case.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
His bulky hands all but encompassed the narrow waist "Like drownin', see?
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Matson swept an arm, encompassed all of Cowpertown, "-this counts.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
The woman made a few final, all-encompassing passes with her spray, then pulled off her gloves and lifted back her hood.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
If I threatened her, then and afterwards, with the terrors that encompassed her, did I hold them in my right hand?'
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
It was an all-encompassing, shattering, deafening din, thundering rather than echoing, between the high peaks of the Hindu Kush.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
It completely encompasses the distant tree, making it glow a hot blue-white and causing the surrounding air to crackle with electricity.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses Size.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
Her faculties, her energy, her passion, were all dispersed again; she felt as if a cold, dark mist had suddenly encompassed her.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
From this time, an inviolable sphere of peace encompassed the lowly heart of the oppressed one,—an ever-present Saviour hallowed it as a temple.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin

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