At best, you can "encase" the leaded soil with clean soil, and hope that over time the lead will ... what?. From Wordnik.com. [Maria Rodale: Lead in Lawns: A Looming Crisis] Reference
Rust-o-leum and other products are designed to "encase" the rust. From Wordnik.com. [Ask MetaFilter] Reference
Cut down one side of it, and encase the wires in it. From Wordnik.com. [POOPING IN A BUCKET!] Reference
In pincer movement, encase victim's head in polythene. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews - they grease the roads! *truckers' pin-up edition*] Reference
The leathern fences, O Madhava, still encase his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
The things I couldn't encase would have to go into the garbage. From Wordnik.com. [Suz Redfearn: Fallen to Pollen] Reference
They encase food in ice and supply toys such as the polar bear log. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2002] Reference
But how was he going to get to the moon, to encase its cheese in wax?. From Wordnik.com. [Xone of Contention]
The native ladies frequently almost encase themselves in cloth or silk. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.] Reference
First takea coil of copper wire, and encase it in something very sturdy. From Wordnik.com. [Knight Rider: Electromagnetic Pulses] Reference
If I didn't know you as well as I do the angst that you bleed would encase me in need. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
We had to encase the fired brick retaining wall with debris to prevent further thefts. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2006 - The Fort] Reference
Some residents secure theirs in "clams" - lockable steel shells that encase cars completely. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Eden opened the front door, silently welcoming the numbness that seemed to encase her heart. From Wordnik.com. [Honorbound]
The idea is to encase pig islets in tiny semipermeable beads before implanting them in the gut. From Wordnik.com. [Replacement Parts] Reference
Massive tallow brick walls encase crumbling five-story cell blocks, stacked like outsize headstones. From Wordnik.com. [Beating The Rap In Brazil] Reference
To discourage dust mites, encase your pillows, mattresses, and box springs in dust-mite-proof covers. From Wordnik.com. [7 easy ways to reduce indoor air pollution] Reference
These sticks which encase the Great Lakes, Jim, are the Happy Hunting ground for the likes of you & me. From Wordnik.com. [Unmanned] Reference
They encase us in titanium shells, place the shells in titanium bulkheads and consider us invulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [the ship who sang]
(Something along the same lines was used to encase the mechanicals atop Durst's 4 Times Square, he added.). From Wordnik.com. [Sun Rise! New Hudson Square Hotel to Use Solar Technology Rare for New York] Reference
Although the process destroys the chimneys that encase the sulfide-rich plumes, the vents themselves survive. From Wordnik.com. [Mining’s Final Frontier] Reference
He had smashed the hard carapace in which so many of us encase ourselves in order to keep sorrow at a distance. From Wordnik.com. [Buddha]
But we live on a hillside, so we would have had to cut into the hill and encase the court in a cement envelope. From Wordnik.com. [Talking to Mr. Big: Alex Beam] Reference
It's patriotic to encase high-ranking butts in luxury that '' the people of the United States would be proud of. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Patt Morrison: "That's 'Screw In a Lightbulb, SIR,' Airman!"] Reference
While You waft about in cool, flowing robes, You have allowed us to encase our legs in hot, skin-tight, bunchy denim. From Wordnik.com. [Are You There, God? It���s Moi, Muddled ���.] Reference
As to the mountains which encase it, they form a branch of the Toungouzes, and are derived from the vast system of the. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff] Reference
When not working or with friends, we raise the shield and encase ourselves into our beings as we move from Point A to B. From Wordnik.com. [partygirl Diary Entry] Reference
Next estimate the number of thousands of feet board measure of forms required to encase the concrete to be placed in a day. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Plums don't need much, just a pillowy batter to encase them, to catch their juices and a little sweetness to joust with their tartness. From Wordnik.com. [Food52's Best Plum Recipe Showdown: Vote For The Best Dish] Reference
Like Rabelais, he can use the pencil to greater ends under cover of the motley, and encase bitter truths with the gilt of a printed jest. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
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