She slid down, quickly engulfed by the depths of the river. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
MSPs would launch a revolution that would "engulf" Scotland and put socialism back on the agenda across Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
At first, the online world threatened to engulf me. From Wordnik.com. [Can We Become Caught In The Web?] Reference
Oh, fly the charmèd margin ere th 'abyss engulf its prey. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
She watched the flames engulf Kaori dealing 90 damage to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossible Man - Ep.15: Journey and a Half] Reference
An angry mob closed around the car and threatened to engulf it. From Wordnik.com. [Bobby's Last, Longest Day] Reference
The darkness would engulf me and become my blanket and only friend. From Wordnik.com. [If I Was A Bum] Reference
On came the flood which, once started, threatened to engulf the entire. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
It must be creeping around the eastern edge, and would soon engulf us. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
Oil may hit the burner/flames causing a fire to engulf the entire unit. From Wordnik.com. [Don't be a turkey: Gas fryers are unsafe] Reference
Thankfully, the madness of Gujarat is unlikely to engulf the rest of India. From Wordnik.com. [DOOMED FROM WITHIN] Reference
Could it reach critical mass in a Third World capital, then engulf the globe?. From Wordnik.com. [Outbreak Of Fear] Reference
No one paid attention to the inferno that was about to engulf southern Europe. From Wordnik.com. [A Dark Legacy] Reference
This gave Alysia a chance to spin Saga over her head and engulf it with flames. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.28: Our Hearts as One] Reference
The fury of the place threatened to engulf me and throw me down to destruction. From Wordnik.com. [A Mess] Reference
Even as he did so he saw a great wave engulf her, and, a moment later she sank. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam] Reference
She paused, mastering, with an effort, the emotion that threatened to engulf her. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Then, like erl-king in the German legends, they broaden out to engulf their opponent. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Logic pointed toward war: unreason seemed about to engulf the feeble murmur of diplomacy. From Wordnik.com. [Will He Blink?] Reference
As it is, we all tread on quicksands of mystery, that may open and engulf us at any instant. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
That one call began a series of events that would engulf Washington — and upend Tamm's life. From Wordnik.com. [The Fed Who Blew the Whistle] Reference
It may also engulf other unions, including the AFL-CIO -- and possibly the Clinton White House. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton's Labor Pains] Reference
Together with our friends and allies, we will work together to shape change, lest it engulf us. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
It has vastly extended the geographic reach and complexity of the human/nature cycles that engulf us. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: Recovering the Commons: Inteview with Scholars on the Climate Justice Frontlines] Reference
Soon the tumult of the inebriated made us forget the roaring of the sea which threatened to engulf us. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
Men like Zollschan, Ruppin, and Theilhaber have pointed out the awful chasm that threatens to engulf us. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Will it be the granary for those lucky enough to escape the disasters about to engulf the developed North?. From Wordnik.com. [Pepe Escobar: Patagonia: The End of the World Is on Sale] Reference
She began to engulf him; he was buried between her thighs and his whole head, now peeled like a grape, was in her mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Destruction In A '67 El Dorado] Reference
Deep within you knew the music would spring forth and engulf you with a sense of mellowness and leave you floating within. From Wordnik.com. [Once There Was A Man] Reference
And yet the president seemed first blind to and then baffled by the danger, even as it threatened to engulf his presidency. From Wordnik.com. [America Changes The Guard] Reference
Only after the Greek crisis threatened to engulf the euro zone did Merkel override popular opposition and approve the loan. From Wordnik.com. [As nationalism rises, will the European Union fall?] Reference
Indogate now threatens to engulf the DNC and the White House in a wide-ranging probe of "" soft money '' campaign contributions. From Wordnik.com. ['A Bottomless Pit'] Reference
I call on minds loftier than mine to propose immediate solutions to this human crisis before the flames of hatred engulf us all. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Luce: Evil in America? U.S. Fundamentalist Group to Burn Koran on 9/11] Reference
The green mist could hold no terrors greater than those with which his imagination peopled the depths now waiting to engulf him. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Each dive is an invocation, a sacred petition against the overwhelming tide of grief and ruin that threatens to engulf them both. From Wordnik.com. [The Impulse of Breathing] Reference
The danger is that the impulse to duck might draw him into situations that have deteriorated to the point where they can engulf him. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton's Growing Pains] Reference
She had fainted at sight of the ghost-shape, whose white-hot folds flapped there, reaching to engulf her in their all-consuming embrace. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures of Vibration] Reference
The neocons have not lost their faith in American invasions even as the fallout from Iraq emboldens Syria and Iran and threatens to engulf the region in all-out war. From Wordnik.com. [400,000 Frozen Embryos] Reference
Our only solace at the close of this haunting novel is that the horrors that continue to engulf people like Austerlitz can also inspire this singularly beautiful work of art. From Wordnik.com. [Blending Fact With Fiction] Reference
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