Sheets of web have encased several mature oak trees and are thick enough in places to block out the sun along a nature trail at Lake Tawakoni State Park, near this town about 50 miles east of Dallas.
Lurching through Werner Herzog's wonderfully sleazy "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," Nicolas Cage's character — a heroin-addicted cop encased in several layers of depravity — seemed, like the post-Hurricane Katrina images that had dominated our evening news, at once heroic and disgraceful.
Because the tassel develops within a whorl of immature leaves and maize anthers are encased in several outer organs, anthers grow in darkness during the developmental stages considered here.
2) Several compounds are formed encasing a hidden β-glycosidic bond, potentially solving the chemical rebus posed by the non-reactivity of nucleic bases with sugars.
The pockets of the blue denim shirt encasing his barrel chest are stuffed with several pairs of glasses.
A quick tour of her house reveals posters, a clock, a mug, key rings, and several fridge magnets, each one encasing a different photograph of Richie.
The reactor is encased in reinforced concrete several feet thick, probably enough, the industry contends, to withstand a crash.
In the fickle cold and rainy weather, the 2004 field crew encased this specimen and several others in plaster jackets, soon loaded them onto helicopters, and awaited the subsequent discovery by preparators of what exactly lay entombed in these 375-million-year-old rocks.
Several men encased her body in dirt, covered her face with leaves and told her to wait until Border Patrol agents had disappeared to dig herself out.
As an adaptation to the seasonal disappearance of their habitat, they produce desiccation-resistant eggs that can survive for one or several years encased in the dry mud in a dormant state in which all biological processes are depressed (diapause) [3] [5].
