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