Sentence examples for engulf area from inspiring English sources

The fire, the first in a series of 24 blazes that roared through Southern California around Thanksgiving, was pushed by 60-mile-an-hour Santa Ana winds, causing the flames to engulf area hills and canyons quickly and to destroy landmarks and homes and displace scores of residents.

As such, these increasingly-common disasters take a hefty financial toll when they engulf areas populated with even a handful of residential or commercial buildings.

Some of the Pakistani reluctance, they said, stemmed from longstanding concern that the United States might be tempted to seize or destroy Pakistan's arsenal if the insurgency appeared about to engulf areas near Pakistan's nuclear sites.

The government's emergency Cobra committee met twice and local emergency plans swung into operation as the surge threatened to engulf areas of the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent plus parts of the north-west from Cumbria to Cheshire as well as communities in north Wales.

23, 24 While autophagy appears to engulf areas of the cytoplasm, specificity for individual molecules and organelles can be conferred by p62 and other molecules, such as Bcl-2 19 kDa interacting protein (BNIP3).

The heavy rain sent water pouring down mountains and into already swollen rivers that quickly engulfed areas in the northern part of Mindanao.

Fighting has engulfed areas around the Syrian shrine, and many Shiite fighters — Syrian as well as Iraqi and Lebanese — have rushed to defend it, according to fighters interviewed in Syria.

Fighting has engulfed areas around the Syrian shrine, which is outside Damascus, and many Shiite fighters — Syrian as well as Iraqi and Lebanese — have rushed to defend it, according to fighters interviewed in Syria.

Within minutes the sea had engulfed areas that were once considered safe.

The proportion of almost completely engulfed particles (with engulfed surface area larger than 70%) beyond 6 minutes is represented in the inset of Figure 6A, showing that completion of engulfment is possible even for cells without actin polymerization.

In accordance with experimental observations [ 20, 38], uptake is more advanced for the spheroid particle engulfed with its tip first (about 80% engulfed surface area) than for the particle attached along its major axis (about 50% engulfed in the same amount of time).