Sentence examples for engulfed for from inspiring English sources

"engulfed for" is not a grammatically correct phrase
It should be "engulfed by" or "engulfed in" in order to make sense in a sentence. Example: The city was engulfed by a dense fog, making it difficult to see anything beyond a few feet.

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He was rightly engulfed, for his had been a fairytale weekend.

Mrs. Clinton asked that it be created after her campaign was engulfed for three days in July by a charge that she voiced an anti-Semitic slur against a former colleague in 1974, and Mrs. Clinton's aides debated how to deal with publicizing her denial.

This city that was engulfed for most of the 1980s by civil war, then latterly by a series of bombings and assassinations, had been relatively quiet over the last four years.

Thymocytes were allowed to be engulfed for 30 min; unbound apoptotic thymocytes were gently washed off with DMEM containing 10% FBS; slides were then incubated for 2 h in the presence of Lysotracker Red (1∶10,000 dilution).

Once the pellet has been fully engulfed for a minute, carefully add a second pellet.

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The agreement, brokered by President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, signals that Mr. Mugabe may be willing to cede some authority to Mr. Tsvangirai, loosening the tight grip on power he has maintained for nearly three decades and easing the political crisis that has engulfed Zimbabwe for months.

But that's because, in my head, I've managed to excise the weird flotsam of spirituality that engulfed T.M. for the first part of my life.

The last time I wrote about Eggleston, he engulfed me for days, and seemed to recalibrate the way I saw the world.

Only a week ago, the Bank of New York enjoyed a brief respite from the money laundering investigation that has engulfed it for the last 18 months.

In the maelstrom that engulfed me for a time, I felt like I was standing in an amphitheatre surrounded by a hostile and highly multicultural audience who were baying for my blood.

The energy crisis, which has engulfed Nigeria for almost two decades, has been enormous and has largely contributed to the incidence of poverty by paralyzing industrial and commercial activities during this period.

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