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    Use "envelops" in a sentence

    envelops example sentences

    envelops


    1. Now the feeble flame gutters and dies, and the chill of the mountain envelops them again


    2. Bad breath stench of stale cream and sugar envelops you as the bean starts chewing away like a cartoon Venus flytrap


    3. A shuddering silence envelops the city, in which I hear the throb of a sullen drum from the distant temple


    4. and surrounds, envelops and clothes them


    5. This acting like God envelops all forms of science


    6. For once the present was esteemed at its proper value, being invested with some of the glamour which almost always envelops the past


    7. From time to time, at those "energetic" moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which he had contented himself since the beginning of the argument


    8. Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that negligent attire of early morning which envelops young girls in an adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to pieces


    9. Besides, since our despair has this peculiarity, that it envelops others as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should come thither to die


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