Verb (used with object), : We encased the ancient vase in glass to preserve it.    From Dictionary.com. 

Well, it seems Count Rumford also has his name encased in this sponge cake based, meringue topped insulated ice cream dish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford] Reference

The files all had tiny labels encased in plastic tabs arranged so they made a neat diagonal from left to right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Echo Burning]

Nothing says labeling yourself an alcoholic with name encased shot glasses, but my personal favorite one is the Red Sox one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

"It's very gauzy and kind of encased in fluff and nostalgia, and it doesn't express the real history of the parkway at all.".    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Record Article Feed] Reference

My stony expression encased a volcanic delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

The book was encased in glass upon a square pedestal.    From Wordnik.com.  [They Would Judge His Trespasses] Reference

They dream about tranquil bodies encased in abandoned rocks of the cosmos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wishing Tree] Reference

 My eyes felt encased in thick sockets, and my face was numb, the consistency of putty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nielsens (part two)] Reference

In the next few images he is encased in plastic: His face is frozen in a ghoulish grimace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Togetherness In Baghdad] Reference

Illyria is a "cold, isolating, loveless, hard place" encased in a blue, icelike atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free for All 'Twelfth Night' embraces vision of original director Taichman] Reference

If something sat encased in sediment for 60 million years it can linger a few months longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living His Dinosaur Dream] Reference

But the most startling part about being encased in sound-deadening armor is the eerie silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Full-Metal Traffic Jam] Reference

As skinny as he was, Von Rotten had the voluminous memory of an elephant, encased in a very big head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 6] Reference

There's nothing worse than encased in paper liner encapsulated forever there's nothing worse than never.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cupcake Footprint] Reference

TheIsland — Internationalwas in her lap, a little crumpled, one corner under her denim encased right thigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sri Lanka] Reference

The pinch: When interest rates tighten, consumers immediately feel the pinch because they're so encased in debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [RAISING HELL IN DEBTVILLE] Reference

Team employees put the locker back together just as Taylor had left it, and it's encased behind protective glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Snyder unveils new video scoreboards, other upgrades to FedEx Field] Reference

Sweet-talking fire-breathers, bright as vegetable skin, intestines clean and dark purple, organs encased in endocarps.    From Wordnik.com.  [forestry] Reference

When they realized they were facing Palestinian police, protesters aimed their stones at a glass-encased poster of Arafat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confronting The Mob] Reference

It is then that we are frequented by huge emotions, words encased in cocoons that mature and hatch and fly about the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Ordinary Pig] Reference

The third floor has been added to the existing structure and heavy windows open out to a balcony encased in sculpted metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hotel review | Town Hall, London] Reference

Cynthia Stevenson's Trish has been elongated into Allison Janney, who seems even more encased in her bubble of obliviousness.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Life During Wartime': Squirm-Worthy Storytelling] Reference

"Imagine yourself encased in armor," says Dr. Abraham Lieberman, medical director of the National Parkinson Foundation in Miami.    From Wordnik.com.  ['PRECIOUS' SUFFERING] Reference

As Carson encased himself in his professional life, his regular guests became a kind of family and their gigs the ties that bind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stranger In The Night] Reference

Dear Heloise: Regarding those products that come encased in hard plastic: It is super dangerous to try to cut through the plastic!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hints From Heloise] Reference

Tourists abound at the famed Chinese Theater next door, oggling the legendary screen actors 'footprints encased in sidewalk cement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back To Oscar's Roots] Reference

In the laboratory the encased hand holding the uranium phial quivers as an owl is lit by a police cars headlights on the perimeter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Downland Ballad I :Photo-disintegration] Reference

Her breasts in a '50s bra, were concealed by pink angora, and her thighs were encased in a long, tweed skirt that skimmed her knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [What You Never Thought You Wanted] Reference

Frankly, swimming has never been the sexiest of sports — and even less so now, with the athletes encased in those full-body Speedos.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Bored to Bedazzled, In Eight Races] Reference

Bergh is slightly embarrassed about the necessity to experience nature swaddled in synthetic fabrics and encased in a fiberglass shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Sea To Shining Sea] Reference

The final descent runs parallel to the Vesey Street stairs, known as the survivors 'staircase, encased in wooden scaffolding on Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [9/11 Museum To Open In 2012] Reference

  And it looked the part for our magazine story: everything was a loud hue to match the house's postcard exterior and encased in vinyl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dump like no other.] Reference