Engulfed Sentence Examples

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  • For a moment a pang of homesickness engulfed her.

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  • His big hand engulfed hers gently, yet his grip was strong.

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  • The lights flickered and then darkness engulfed the cabin.

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  • Darkness engulfed me as I felt his foot kick my side repeatedly.

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  • He sighed contentedly as her warmth engulfed him.

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  • She gurgled and choked, engulfed in terror.

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  • Passing over the Cross Keys Wash, near Sutton Bridge, his baggage and treasure wagons were engulfed and he himself barely escaped with life.

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  • Engulfed in his heat and scent, she relaxed.

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  • Eventually this interesting church was engulfed by the rising tide of Mahommedan conquest, but not before one of their bishops, named Israel, had converted (677-703) the Huns who lay to the north of the Caspian and had translated the Bible and liturgies into their language.

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  • Engulfed by a wave of homesickness, she turned away, shrugging off the unexpected emotion.

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  • While Cynthia was apprehensive over the wildness of the area, once there, the stark beauty that engulfed her dispelled her earlier trepidation.

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  • It was the Revolution, which at one moment seemed finally to have engulfed the papacy, which in fact preserved it; Febronianism, as a force to be seriously reckoned with, perished in the downfall of the ecclesiastical principalities of the old Empire; Gallicanism perished with the constitutional Church in France, and its principles fell into discredit with a generation which associated it with the Revolution and its excesses.

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  • She slid down, quickly engulfed by the depths of the river.

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  • A wave of homesickness engulfed her, and she struggled back to the firm ground of reality.

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  • In Bath a great cathedral priory engulfed the whole southeast quarter of the city.

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  • Nowadays, it's coming very close to being engulfed by the Atlanta suburbs.

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  • For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all.

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  • The second line of the French came on, only to be engulfed in the melee; its leaders, like those of the first line, were killed or taken, and the commanders of the third sought and found their death in the battle, while their men rode off to safety.

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  • The panic which engulfed the whole left of Meade's massive army has never been made a reproach against the Yankee troops.

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  • So he wrote ' Thus Spoke Zarathustra ' during a period of intense catharsis, and was afterward engulfed in bitterness.

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  • We have the earth engulfed in darkness which in touching the surface of the earth touches the surface of water.

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  • The truck was totally engulfed in flames along with all the donated medical supplies from the Arab Emirates.

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  • The pieces of crust thrown upon the surface were soon engulfed by a variety of handsome sized creatures to excite my young pulse.

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  • Alongside the village cricket field and almost engulfed in gardens.

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  • Man at sea is an insect on a splinter, now engulfed, now scared to death.

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  • Instantly the girl was engulfed in a swirling, thick impenetrable fog which pixie led her into the field of gorse.

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  • Seeing God face to face, we will literally be engulfed in His heavenly glory.

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  • With a choking hissing cry his head was engulfed in the blazing inferno.

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  • Within minutes the structure was engulfed in a raging inferno.

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  • The warning came from a government quango that no longer exists based on work by a service provider engulfed by a takeover.

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  • There, engulfed by humming sewing machines and the occasional whiff of industrial solvent, he irons embroidery patterns onto dresses.

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  • Your child's nursery, and the rest of your home, will be engulfed with diapers, socks, baby toys, bottles, pacifiers, and baby blankets.

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  • Upon first loading the game, you are engulfed in the beauty of this beautiful, legendary world.

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  • The darkness swooped down and engulfed them until neither one could see the other, and just as suddenly, Aidan, Mark and the black shadow vanished into the ground.

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  • Then she would be engulfed by another convulsive sob.

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  • By the time the wagons were fully engulfed in flames, they had traveled far enough to be out of the firelight.

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  • The darkness immediately engulfed them and they paused a dozen baby steps into the tunnel to allow their eyes to become accustomed to the blackness.

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  • And Moscow engulfed the army ever deeper and deeper.

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  • Now these places are silent; reclaimed by nature, engulfed by a swarm of diversity.

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  • The panic which engulfed the whole left of Meade 's massive army has never been made a reproach against the Yankee troops.

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  • Other symbols like the Yin and Yang can be engulfed in flames to further the duality of the symbol.

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  • Yzendyke represents a Hanse town which flourished in the 13th century and was gradually engulfed by the sea.

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  • A hollow empty feeling engulfed her, resurrecting Nicks face in the car window.

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  • Since then, he has retired two famous photographs, featuring one bride and her dress engulfed in flames and another in murky water.

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  • Link aimed to protect Hyrule from being engulfed by the Twilight Realm, a parallel dimension that was corrupted and dark.

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  • For this reason, a visit to Hot Topic is sure to be engulfed in blacks, purples, and a myriad of sarcastic catch phrases and products carrying a certain sense of dark humor.

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  • A wave of grief engulfed him and ripped through to his core, knocking the breath from him.

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  • She rested one hand on his upper arm and surrendered her other to a hand that engulfed hers.

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  • Within a quarter of an hour after a quantity of cinnabar has been injected into the blood of the frog nearly every particle will be found engulfed by the protoplasm of the leucocytes of the circulating blood.

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