encompassment

Example Sentences

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Yanagihara’s characters are able to live this encompassment.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2020

That’s an encompassment for the kids around here, where I’m from, stuff like that.

From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2020

And each day, too, she had seemed to draw farther away from him, as she rose steadily out of the limited 319 encompassment in which they dwelt.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

Money, indeed, if certain ill-natured gossip of tradesmen be true, has been an inconsiderable factor in the encompassment of this sartorial distinction.

From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Wilson, Harry Leon

But her encompassment, as is so apt to be the case here, was pitiably mediocre.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar