Sentence examples for encompass a smaller area from inspiring English sources

The city's walled fortifications, originally erected by the Lusignan kings and later rebuilt by the Venetians to encompass a smaller area (3 miles [5 km] round), did not prevent invasions by the Genoese in 1373, the Mamlūks in 1426, and the Turks in 1570.

The hurricane watch was also modified to encompass a smaller area, between Grand Isle and Pascagoula.

Parts of the Arab wall, encompassing a much smaller area than the Greco-Roman city, survive on Ṭarīq al-Ḥurriyyah, but in Ottoman times the city contracted to the stem of the promontory, now the Turkish Quarter.

All subjects were residents of inner-city Baltimore, defined by nine contiguous ZIP codes and encompassing a relatively small area (approximately 4 mi).

The Hatton Garden area encompasses a small number of streets in Holborn surrounding the street of the same name.

We continued on, until a circle of bright lights encompassing a small house came into view.

It encompasses the historic county of Kinross-shire (Kinross, which covers a small area in the southeast), a very small portion of the historic county of Angus (south of Coupar Angus), and most of the historic county of Perthshire (or Perth, which covers the remainder of the council area).

The package contains several optional programs: a simple trajectory model, as well as models for large-scale spills that encompass a significant area of the water body and for smaller spills that remain localized in an arbitrarily small sub-region.

Diu encompasses an island off the southern coast of Gujarat's Kathiawar Peninsula, 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Veraval, as well as a small area on the mainland.

"It's a small area of cultivation".

Dumped within a small area.