Envelops
[en'veləps]
Examples
- Almost one fifth of the air which envelops us is made up of the life-giving oxygen. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In consequence of this hint, Lily found herself the centre of that feminine solicitude which envelops a young woman in the mating season. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Leucodore, clione and other borers, parasitic or domiciliary worms work into the shell, and instinctively the protecting nacreous fluid envelops the intruder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This lamp, to my mind, envelops with a cloud of distrust the whole Goebel story. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The atmosphere which envelops us at all times extends more than fifty miles above us, its height being far greater than the greatest depths of the sea. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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