To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender.
1 The officers close in, trying to hem in Herrera between the two vehicles.
2 The narrow limits of personal gain and personal inheritance rigidly hem in sub-human progress.
3 Though scientific facts do not by themselves dictate values, they hem in the possibilities.
4 Does she feel a hem in air, or only coldness?
5 The rising value of the dollar will also hem in any potential gains, he said.
6 A sort of hem in his nose, and tucks and seams all over his cheeks.
7 These hem in a valley of grey sand and shingle, threaded by a greyish stream.
8 What other owner would ever know how to dip into hem in the proper way?
9 Can you hem in such a territory as that?
10 However, inflationary risks remain and a political logjam continues to hem in reforms, clouding the economic outlook.
11 Two mountain ranges hem in the valley.
12 Spain, therefore, proposed to hem in our growth by giving us the Alleghanies for our western boundary.
13 The army also believes the rebels laid mines to hem in civilians as human shields -which the Tigers deny.
14 He was singed, and his cloak was blackened a little along the hem in the back, but he was unharmed.
15 Perhaps they could hem in the desperado from the front and shoot him down there, as he skirted along the river.
16 Groups of detached buildings hem in the view on each side, and their flags wave with the sky for a background.
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