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Meanings of encircled in English
Synonyms
Examples for "ringed"
Examples for "ringed"
1
Little ringed plovers colonised Britain either side of the second world war.
2
Across the wide expanse ringed by grand buildings sits the president's mansion.
3
He was already in the suburban chain that ringed the great city.
4
She took it up in her many-ringed hands and read it judicially.
5
Her friend took in keenly the big deep-pupiled eyes ringed with weariness.
1
Helen Cresswell stood there radiant; the dressmaker, too, was wreathed in smiles.
2
The sea was wreathed in fog when he rowed over to Halsskär.
3
The wood-nymphs wreathed a human chain about the marge of the pool.
4
Around the drawing-room the faces of the parents were wreathed with smiles.
5
It was wreathed in flowers, and baskets of corn stood before it.
Usage of encircled in English
1
The strategic Iraqi airbase Ain al-Asad is currently encircled by Islamic State.
2
The campus was encircled by thousands of police, blocking off escape routes.
3
However, his arms encircled the angel's wings, cramping them to his side.
4
The sombre figures of the older gods encircled him in wrathful excitement.
5
I don't know what's wrong with me, Her arms encircled his waist.
6
They used to jog on the concrete road that encircled the park.
7
Now Igraine was always encircled by a group extolling his brave actions.
8
And the pig was encircled by the dauntless banner of our country.
9
Every evening every phase of social misfortune came and encircled his happiness.
10
It encircled the earth, embraced history and letters since the world began.
11
It is encircled by a lofty wall about 8000 feet in height.
12
At that moment, Priscilla tripped, pitching forward on her velvet-and-wire encircled belly.
13
Beside her he knelt silently; he encircled her with his right arm.
14
He did not notice the glittering lights that encircled the murky night.
15
In another instant it encircled her, but she pushed him vehemently away.
16
Cahiagué, the capital, encircled two hundred large cabins within its wooden walls.
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Encircled through the time
Encircled across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common