A house engulfed in flames.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : The overflowing river has engulfed many small towns along its banks. ,He engulfed himself in his studies.    From Dictionary.com. 

The fire engulfed a karaoke bar situated on the third floor of a commercial building in the city, Indonesia's third largest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

We as a society - including me - have been "engulfed" by television for about 60 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Horowitz: Sarah Palin 3] Reference

ZARRELLA: All of a sudden, there was this big cloud that kind of engulfed the spaceship.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: CNN 20: Remembering 20 Years of CNN Covering the World - June 1, 2000] Reference

He said at times a racial incident would be exaggerated and people would say South Africa was still "engulfed" in racism.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

JV, varsity, they've all just kind of engulfed her.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

A formidable addition has since been made to this 'engulfed' family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852] Reference

When they arrived home about 30 minutes later, Suedhoff said the house was "engulfed" in flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [lsj.com - News] Reference

"engulfed" in flames during the riots that caused three deaths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

South Africa was engulfed by a raging war last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Nelson's Chicken!] Reference

But by May 1963, as riots engulfed Birmingham, Ala.    From Wordnik.com.  [A President's Ultimate Test] Reference

Flames quickly engulfed Train 40, as well as 30 and 20.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEXT NEW OIL IS A GAS] Reference

Still, the case had been engulfed in doubt from the start.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death In The Mountains] Reference

"Your memories are engulfed with all that sadness," she writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Lives Of Teens] Reference

Eventually protectionism, nationalism, xenophobia and war engulfed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preview Of A Post-U.S. World] Reference

More kids rushed up and engulfed Brown; more cops edged onto the stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston’s Soul Savior] Reference

Police quickly discovered it only miles from his house, engulfed in flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driven to Crime] Reference

"Suddenly the fire came back up the mountain and engulfed the house," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  ['My Home Is All Gone'] Reference

As the tournament began, the country had appeared engulfed by a collective malaise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Les Bleus Cure France’s Blues?] Reference

And the one study that suggested it did has been engulfed in charges of ethics violations.    From Wordnik.com.  [It May Not Save Your Life] Reference

Most of us as consumers are intrigued, excited and engulfed in a whole changing lifestyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man of the World] Reference

In 2003 a similar accounting controversy engulfed Freddie Mac, another huge mortgage company.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE TROUBLE WITH FANNIE] Reference

After nearly a thousand years of peace, the bloody chaos in Yugoslavia has engulfed Dubrovnik.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Dubrovnik Has Become A Hell'] Reference

As a thick cloud engulfed the room, Nikoshvili, a nurse, felt sharp pains in her breast and face.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Where Is Bush?’] Reference

Natural disasters, like the fires that have engulfed Southern California, tend to follow a familiar script.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice Burned] Reference

After massive pro-democracy marches engulfed the city on July 1, 2003, Tung shelved Article 23 and Ip resigned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fall and Rise of Regina Ip] Reference

Last week, for the first time since the early 1990s, much of the Somali capital was engulfed in bloody fire fights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting in the Shadows] Reference

When World War II broke out, Carle's father was drafted by the Germans and his family was engulfed in the chaos of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Surprising Dark Side of the Very Hungry Caterpillar] Reference

Last spring the country was engulfed in rolling "brownouts" as the electric grid ground to a halt because of mismanagement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fleeing From South Africa] Reference

Reagan's ban did not affect these scientific experiments, but they, too, have nevertheless been engulfed by abortion politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cures From The Womb] Reference

In the wee morning hours after the game, trying to join my wife near the Place Republique, the celebratory throng engulfed me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Les Bleus Cure France’s Blues?] Reference

As the police awaited reinforcements, they could take full measure of the filth that engulfed this brigade of 1-to 14-year-olds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Leave Children With Bad Parents?] Reference