The encircled camp was complete cut off.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A brow encircled with laurel.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object), : to encircle an enemy.    From Dictionary.com. 

And I never found the envelope with my name encircled by a heart, revolving on that rack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chocolate for a Lover’s Heart] Reference

But the town of St. Lo is ever gloriously lighted, for us, with a nimbus of young heads, such as encircled the earlier madonnas.    From Wordnik.com.  [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference

To its east and southeast, it is "encircled" by American allies such as Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Line Opinion - Latest Articles] Reference

XIII, encircled by the great officers of the crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

And then a rainbow encircled the illuminated mountains, like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference

Bob's hand closed over the egg and fingers that encircled it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasure] Reference

Hillsborough, home of Sheffield Wednesday, is encircled by the River Don.    From Wordnik.com.  [Which football stadium is closest to water?] Reference

The downtown Los Angeles hotel's swimming pool is encircled by razor wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Small Screen Drama Kings] Reference

Chester stood without the railing which encircled the Mayor and his clerk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

As the powerful light encircled them the crouching figures sprang backwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

The lazy air encircled me, and I realized just how depressing Sundays can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water] Reference

'With what a pretty string you have encircled it, -- and how neatly it is tied!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

Gaza is encircled by a security barrier and, lately, hundreds of soldiers and police.    From Wordnik.com.  [LAST STAND IN SAMARIA] Reference

Never again would I attend a funeral where all the mourners encircled the open grave.    From Wordnik.com.  [R.I.P.] Reference

But this beautiful submission did not satisfy him; he encircled her again with his arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

When they embrace at the curtain call, you feel your own shoulders encircled and warmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Irish Guys Are Beguiling] Reference

At left, rising water encircled a small group of houses and trees in Kot Addu Wednesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punjab Struggles Amid Flooding] Reference

Already, gooey oil has encircled islands where brown pelicans are sitting on their nests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louisiana Argues Over Who Pays For Sandbars] Reference

The bowling alley, encircled by a giant roller-skating rink, was the socialMeccafor teenagers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luther Loves Lucy] Reference

The mainly Muslim city of Sarajevo had been encircled and was being bombarded around the clock.    From Wordnik.com.  ['God Is Not Great'] Reference

The flames rose up into the air creating a wall and encircled the vehicle, bursting its wheels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi - c.5: Will] Reference

One showed a man with a whip; the other, a pink triangle encircled by the words SILENCE IS DEATH.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homophobia] Reference

They encircled Hincapie -- a lifelong Roman Catholic from Colombia -- laid hands on her and prayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE BATTLE FOR LATINO SOULS] Reference

The doctor stood and  made his way stiffly up the stairway that encircled the giant glass pillar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tin Girl] Reference

Bride sweetly asks me to step up with the other girls, to clamor for the tiny daisies encircled by ribbons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aria] Reference

We were encircled in this so-called "hong" by loveliness unlike any that we could have ever expected to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Macphersons: Week 40: Crusin'] Reference

All of us whether our wrists are encircled by a Timex, a Rolex or a hospital ID will learn this soon enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tyranny of the Clock] Reference

Fires have all but encircled Voronezh, a city of 850,000 people, some 300 miles (475 kilometers) south of Moscow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia Forest Fires Rage, 25 Dead (PHOTOS)] Reference

By late afternoon a brigade commander from the 1st Infantry Division had encircled the road junction with fifty tanks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schwarzkopf] Reference

Several months earlier, you flew to the Big Island, rented a car and drove the two lane road that encircled the island.    From Wordnik.com.  [What You Catch a Glimpse of, Forget As Soon] Reference

            Wolves encircled him, their fangs bared to ward away any evil creature that dared to stage a coup.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lonely Snake] Reference

Shortly before 10: 30 p.m. she was at the well of the House, encircled by House Speaker Tom Foley and other anxious senior members.    From Wordnik.com.  [Housebroken] Reference

As a safety net in case the tower toppled during this operation, restorers encircled its midsection with a four-centimeter-thick cable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Righting One Wrong Tower] Reference

 When the elder Monsieur Léger was alive, bugs and rodents had remained on the other side of the stone walls that encircled the property.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eclipse] Reference