Shaped like a ring.
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The strategic Iraqi airbase Ain al-Asad is currently encircled by Islamic State.
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The campus was encircled by thousands of police, blocking off escape routes.
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However, his arms encircled the angel's wings, cramping them to his side.
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The sombre figures of the older gods encircled him in wrathful excitement.
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I don't know what's wrong with me, Her arms encircled his waist.
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Helen Cresswell stood there radiant; the dressmaker, too, was wreathed in smiles.
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The sea was wreathed in fog when he rowed over to Halsskär.
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The wood-nymphs wreathed a human chain about the marge of the pool.
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Around the drawing-room the faces of the parents were wreathed with smiles.
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It was wreathed in flowers, and baskets of corn stood before it.
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Little ringed plovers colonised Britain either side of the second world war.
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Across the wide expanse ringed by grand buildings sits the president's mansion.
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He was already in the suburban chain that ringed the great city.
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She took it up in her many-ringed hands and read it judicially.
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Her friend took in keenly the big deep-pupiled eyes ringed with weariness.
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You imagine a signet-ringed hand waved over the room sometime in 1978.
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The security circled my position and they were ringed by other punters.
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Marcella looked wan and tired; her eyes were ringed with black shadows.
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This was ringed with tall torches set into sockets in the stone.
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Fanciers regularly look at feeding pigeons to see if any are ringed.
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But on this day the Yunkai'i have my city ringed in steel.
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Nay, it seemed as if the whole town was ringed about us.
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The valley was ringed with precipitous cliffs falling sheer to its floor.
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Cetinje then was a mere red-roofed village conspicuous on the mountain-ringed plain.
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The warren of tenements that ringed the city was less crowded now.
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Matthews' ruddy face had turned livid; his blood-shot eyes were dark ringed.
