Sentence examples for ensconced under from inspiring English sources

Watching our protagonists ensconced under their favourite oak, Thermoses in hand and intermittently reflecting on last night's University Challenge, brings with it a rare and enveloping tranquility.

Like his 16 family members, and almost every other Afghan ensconced under the mulberry trees of Athens' Victoria Square, his motto is "move, move, move".

As soon as the glamour-puss fiancée announces, post-coitus, that it has been her lifelong ambition to marry a doctor ("Everything seems to be falling into place for me"), you know that the kindly emergency-room physician lying next to her won't be ensconced under the sheets for very long.

Once ensconced under heavy guard and the scrutiny of the Qin king (Chen Dao Ming), "Nameless" relates how he vanquished the king's most feared enemies, Sky (Donnie Yen), Snow (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) and the most powerful warrior of all, Broken Sword (Tony Leung Chiu-wai).

Watney, 29, was happily ensconced at 13 under par, seemingly unbothered by the logjam of players piling up behind him.

More than a decade later, in May , 1998 a few months before the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, as the threat grew from Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, which was then safely ensconced in Afghanistan under the protection of the Taliban, Bill Clinton spoke at the Naval Academy and promised "to work with other nations to eliminate terrorist sanctuaries overseas".

Now these two diminutive travelers are ensconced in a casserole dish under a lamp in our living room, where every night they fill our house with song.

And, "There was a ram finer than any of the others, so I caught hold of him by the back, ensconced myself in the thick wool under his belly, and flung on patiently to his fleece, face upwards, keeping a firm hold on it all the time".

Teenage angst, racism, class conflicts and the collision of cultures set off by urban gentrification all broil under the humid July sun, ensconced in the stench of the murky waterfront.

A new generation of chefs, many of them now ensconced at the city's top restaurants, trained under Mr. Trotter and found in him a brilliant, if frightening, teacher.

In 669, as a reward for his services, Kamatari was given the new surname of Fujiwara, and under him the Fujiwara clan became firmly ensconced.