How to Use enfold in a Sentence

enfold

verb

• We watched as darkness enfolded the city.
• The dish is made of vegetables enfolded in a pastry crust.
• To serve, wrap a slice of bread around the skewer and pull the meat off the stick, enfolding the meat in the bread to make a sandwich.
  — Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2019
• Let all the tumult within me cease, Lord, enfold me in your peace.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 12 Oct. 2022
• What follows is a saga that enfolds the whole conflict.
  — Karan Mahajan, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• His words and smiles enfolded me in his special circle, anointing me the adult among the kids, the big deal among the strugs.
  — Tess McNulty, Harper's Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
• And once again, in what’s become a trend in recent years, the game outshined the commerce that enfolded it.
  — Seth Stevenson, Slate Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• Glass walls with clear glass shelving enfold the formal dining room.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• On the back wall, a pensive woman enfolded in a flowing blue dress sews together a swatch of green fabric that has been ripped in two.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
• Some 40 million miles of roadways girdle our planet, four million of which enfold the United States.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• One of your toughest jobs as a grandmother is to find ways to enfold your granddaughter’s siblings into your world.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2018
• Fourteen suites and guest rooms (with four more in the pipeline) and a pair of apartments enfold a courtyard shaded by umbrella pines and a century-old Lebanon cedar.
  — Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2021
• Come springtime, a perimeter of blossoming dogwoods will enfold the clearing in a cottony veil.
  — Curbed, 13 Nov. 2022
• Fourteen guest rooms and a pair of apartments enfold a courtyard shaded by umbrella pines and a century-old Lebanon cedar.
  — Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2023
• Devil enfolds him in a baffling swirl of sordid hallways-of-power intrigue.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• This process of reiteration leaves one feeling enfolded in the creases of Cole’s mind.
  — Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 June 2017
• Hockey enfolded the team and the town in its grief almost immediately.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Asheville, North Carolina enfolds you in its hills and valleys, perfect for a couple’s getaway for Valentine’s Day and beyond.
  — Verna Gates, al, 17 Feb. 2020
• The United States drew on its increasing supply of bodies and of wealth to destroy, bypass, or enfold Native nations on its march to the Pacific.
  — David Treuer, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• The author draws on this cult of the Virgin to enfold her grandmother in eternal, biblical (rather than geopolitical) time.
  — Gaiutra Bahadur, New York Times, 10 May 2018
• Quite why police brass decided that reuniting them would be a recipe for successful sleuthing is a mystery greater than most enfolded in the film’s slow, lurching plot.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Feb. 2023
• The permafrost around Fairbanks is discontinuous; jagged pieces of it finger north-facing slopes and enfold the low-lying valleys.
  — Lois Parshley, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2022
• Gradually, the others enter to enfold her in a calming embrace.
  — Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
• Now it is has been expanded to enfold an unknown number of new functions and needs, in spaces that are flexible and multipurpose.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
• The beast of a database is expected to enfold all Indian residents by the end of the year, and the reach of its tentacles expands ever further to more programs, schemes and applications.
  — Sandy Ong, Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2017
• But more than anything else, this enchantingly odd movie grows to enfold you in a lingering sense of melancholy that rings eerily true, especially right now.
  — Sara Stewart, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
• This makes the utter helplessness that later enfolds them all the sadder, as each actor subtly conveys a sudden awareness of brutal aloneness.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 15 May 2018
• Today, the meadows enfolding the encampments have been returned to milkweed, goldenrod, and meadow rue.
  — Richard Brady, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
• Amid their taut geometries are passages of enfolding softness and effulgent color harmonies — rich reds, pale yellows and blues against his favorite milky lime green.
  — Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2019
• Ambient keyboard chords chase and enfold themselves around Moody’s voice, heightening the sparseness that always made Johnston’s music great.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024