Meanings of engulf the world in English

They would need courage; the calamity they spoke of could engulf the world.

In the Deluge that shall engulf the world, his place is in the Ark.

For if the Weavers and the witchstones are not destroyed now, they will engulf the world like a shroud.

The black night of barbarous ignorance may often engulf the world, but "Thou, Eternal Providence, wilt cause the day to dawn."

Shadows reached out from each tree and then spread, outward and upward, engulfing the world.

War engulfed the world.

Everything was happening almost unimaginably rapidly, with a wave of unrest that began in Tunisia suddenly engulfing the world, threatening everywhere.

We want to find a narrative -a story -to make sense of the coronavirus crisis that has engulfed the world.

None but the most pessimistic jeremiahs could have foreseen the speed and depth of the financial crisis which has engulfed the world.

Neither spoke to each other, nor to her, and both seemed to be part of the awful stillness that engulfed the world.