The word 'ensconce' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb which means to settle into a comfortable and secure position or place. For example, "The family ensconced themselves in their new home."
The fact that Tony Smith managed to ensconce himself at an event that clearly didn't have a conceptual category suggests that they were beguiled by his triumph at Hampton Court last year where his garden "In Digestion" won Best in Show in the conceptual category.
To ensconce themselves in the interior, they fought major wars and established a series of accommodations with those Africans whom they were unable to conquer.
It proves that you can ensconce a building within a kind of classic modern tradition and still imbue it with freshness.
As a young artist, Bochner made small portraits of his artist friends on graph paper: for Eva Hesse, a spiral of synonyms beginning with "WRAP-UP" and continuing on through "SWATHE," "CONFINE," and "ENSCONCE"; for Robert Smithson, a list, in two columns, headlined "REPETITION," and including "REPRODUCTION," "DUPLICATION," "REDOUBLING," "RECURRENCE," and "REDUNDANCY".
Over the last 40 years, a class of Arab leaders took power and managed to combine direct or indirect oil money, with multiple intelligence services, with support from either America or Russia, to ensconce themselves in office for multiple decades.
It would ensconce moneyed princes on Capitol Hill to buy lawmakers' favors from within.
This exaggeration is part of Mr Brown's broader strategy for ensconcing himself in his new office, and dispelling the memory of Tony Blair a person scarcely mentioned in Bournemouth, and then in embarrassed tones as if he were a scandalous old relative, or a politically dead ex-comrade of whom it would be ungentlemanly to speak ill.This strategy may look unlikely, but it seems to be working.
Ensconcing large broadband loan and grant programmes in the Agriculture Department threatens to drain federal money for decades into parts of the country that already get other hefty and often similarly mismanaged federal farm and development subsidies.
Instead of ensconcing themselves in châteaus, they roamed all over the theatre of war, not seldom taking to the air and covering hundreds of miles in a single day.
Ensconcing herself in my living room, she's delighted beyond all sense that I've remembered she prefers lemon and ginger tea.
Hadid arrived in Rome three days before the MAXXI's opening ceremony, on November 12th, flying from Zurich, where she'd had a client meeting, and ensconcing herself in the luxurious Hotel de Russie, just off the Piazza del Popolo, while her staff stayed nearby, in the less expensive Hotel Locarno.
