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encircling

[ UK /ɛnsˈɜːklɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ɛnˈsɝkəɫɪŋ, ɛnˈsɝkɫɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. being all around the edges; enclosing
    his encircling arms
    the room's skirting board needs painting

How To Use encircling In A Sentence

  • Ice the sides with the chocolate icing, then pipe a decorative border of chocolate icing around the top, encircling the coconut topping.
  • Down the spiral path of the pit they bore him, encircling the sheening, glowing Red One that seemed ever imminent to iridesce from colour and light into sweet singing and thunder. THE RED ONE
  • As far as I could see, a dark green sea of untouched forest rolled out to the whole encircling horizon.
  • It pipes water to its customers from huge reservoirs encircling Scotland's cities.
  • Thus does the earth rotate together with its circumjacent waters and encircling atmosphere.
  • It is not the village of Auronzo, however, it is not the valley, nor the torrent, nor the pine-woods that make the beauty and wonder of the view: – it is the encircling array of mountain summits standing up rank above rank, peak beyond peak, against the clear, pale, evening sky. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
  • his encircling arms
  • A new road would provide access to traffic from High Road, with the cul-de-sac encircling 66 of the properties.
  • The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules is called the stipulation. free adnate: fused to the petiole base ochreate: provided with ochrea, or sheath-formed stipules, e.g. rhubarb, encircling the petiole base interpetiolar: between the petioles of two opposite leaves. intrapetiolar: between the petiole and the subtending stem Wikibooks - Recent changes [en]
  • To 'replenish' the earth is to give out love ungrudgingly to all Nature, -- to 'subdue' the earth, is first, to master the atoms of which the human organisation is composed, and hold them completely under control, so that by means of this mastery, all other atomic movements and forces upon this planet and its encircling atmosphere may be equally controlled. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance
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