Significados de hemming in en inglés

Camp-fires were lighting, a circle of them hemming in the town.

Sherman was on his raid, and Grant was hemming in Lee.

Certainly, the walls represented the limitations hemming in my life.

Still she went on with her hemming in silence.

Dark, ridged backs of mountains bounded the horizon, and all seemed near at hand, hemming in the plain.

Slowly did I see the waves dashing forward to their destined goal, hemming in every chance of escape.

Suffice it to say that I broke through the seemingly insuperable barrier hemming in the atomic world and made myself known.

And on every side arose the soft green mountains, hemming in and brooding over The Place as though they loved it.

The bureaucratic circle hemming in the Czar took alarm, and made haste to secure their ascendancy by fresh measures of oppression.

This would necessarily have had the effect of hemming in the English settlements on the Atlantic seaboard and preventing their Western expansion.

The only good position for such a force, standing on the defensive, is a range of hills hemming in the level ground.

The pupils will probably not be able to finish the hemming in this first lesson, so provision should be made for additional time.

But then, with the postwar boom years, new homes were built in any available space, hemming in the common ground to a narrow path.

Another effort aimed at hemming in Chinese influence may come on Friday, when the U.S. Treasury Department is due to issue recommendations on investment restrictions.

The attack was part of a month-long campaign by President Bashar al-Assad's forces to eject rebels fighting to overthrow him from positions hemming in Damascus.

They listened with startled eyes as he described the wall of flame, hemming in the peaceful home where his little son played around the door-step.