Sentence examples similar to area was engulfed from inspiring English sources
In "The Tortilla Curtain," his 1995 novel about illegal immigrants in Los Angeles, devastating fires sweep through a canyon near Los Angeles before the area is engulfed in a mudslide.
It can dig up to a metre into the ground to retrieve ants or evade predators, and can survive with low oxygen when the area is engulfed by bushfires.
In Switzerland, falling temperatures turned snow-covered cars into Seussian ice sculptures as some areas were engulfed in record-breaking frigid weather, according to the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology.
She has always maintained that as head of the EPA she was simply passing on what government scientists were telling her, warning those working at Ground Zero itself to wear respirators but dismissing concerns over the surrounding area, which was engulfed in dust and ash.
Moscow was engulfed in smog Monday, with some of the worst fires in the surrounding area and the nearby regions of Ryazan, Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod.
Ahmed was engulfed in smoke.
The beachhead was engulfed in flame.
It was engulfed in flames.
I was engulfed in flame. . . .
She was engulfed in a fireball.
