How to Use encircle in a Sentence

encircle

verb

• A crowd of reporters encircled the mayor.
• The elastic bands of the sheet should now be encircling your hand.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
• Two feet of wire then form the fence and 2 feet lie on the ground, encircling your garden.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• The encircling orangerie brings the outside in through the seasons, with trees in zinc planters.
  — Howard Christian, ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
• And then encircle the plant with a small soil berm to hold water in the future.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• Her blue eyes shone from her taut face, all encircled by a bird’s nest of frizzy gray hair.
  — Elizabeth M. Lynch, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024
• The over 90-mile pathway encircles the city, passing through over a dozen parks.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2024
• Silva was in charge of the 58th Division, one of the groups that encircled the final stronghold of the Tamil Tiger rebels in the last stages of the war.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
• From the bed of a white pick-up, Lladrovci saw a large expanse of dirt encircled by a chain-link fence.
  — The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
• With the boat and turtle aligned, Benson managed to encircle him with the hoop and enclose him in the net.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
• Cleveland is encircled by calming green spaces, and some are in the heart of the city, too.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2019
• The lake has a boat ramp on the north side, and the road encircles the water, granting access to the entire shoreline.
  — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 11 June 2024
• The gravest risk for Ukrainian forces is that they would be encircled, trapped and killed in large numbers.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 4 Mar. 2023
• The gravest risk for Ukrainian forces is that they would be encircled, trapped, and killed in large numbers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
• Rimawi’s desk occupies the back corner of the room, and a ring of chairs encircles it.
  — Ismail Ibrahim, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2023
• Watch for the new badge — which frees Buick’s three heraldic shields from the chrome band that used to encircle them on upcoming Buicks.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2023
• That means the roots grow up into the mulch and encircle the tree, rather than out into the surrounding soil.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2022
• Russian forces are entrenched on the eastern edge of the city and are seeking to encircle it.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
• The two of them share a lagoon and are encircled by one barrier reef.
  — Maggie Shipstead, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2023
• Some of the nation saw a total solar eclipse, when the moon is encircled by a ring of light, or a corona, from the sun.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2024
• With this type of pan, the cups are attached to a frame, but not to each other, so the heat can fully encircle each cup.
  — Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• The Russian aim is to slowly cut off or encircle the bulk of Ukraine’s army east of the Dnipro River and starve it of new supplies.
  — New York Times, 1 May 2022
• Stores and restaurants encircle the base, and lush green vines spill through openings in the structure.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2023
• Dark skin encircled the woman’s eyes, and her skin had the pallor of someone who had been sick for a long time.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Technically, the polar vortex refers to a band of winds that encircle the Arctic and keep the cold locked far to the North.
  — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 10 Jan. 2021
• The Army encircled rebellious neighborhoods near Homs and shelled them to the ground.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• More than a dozen muted TV screens encircling the desks played cable news shows about the virus that went unwatched.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2020
• As Negrete looks the man over, crowds of people encircle the tent, craning to see the day’s injured.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• More lights hang from the balconies of the buildings and encircle a towering Christmas tree at the entrance.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
• Spelling Bee online is presented as six hexagons encircling a seventh.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 18 Feb 2025