Sentence examples for enveloping the host from inspiring English sources
After growing in a few spirals around one host shoot, the dodder finds its way to another, and it continues to twine and branch until it resembles a fine, densely tangled web of thin stems enveloping the host plant.
He grew animated as he called us over to look at a strangler fig, which begins life as an innocent epiphyte delivered into an unsuspecting tree's branches by a bird, then grows vines up to the sunlight and down to the ground, eventually enveloping the host tree and strangling it.
The police were called, and the fire enveloped the house.
This ligament aids in enveloping the head of the femur.
Following invasion of bovine leucocytes by tick-inoculated sporozoites, rhoptries and microspheres discharge and the enveloping host cell membrane is disrupted.
Transmission from contaminated environment is also possible although hampered by the fragility of the enveloped virus outside the host.
Where is it?: The capital of the state of Amazonas, Manaus is the furthest north of the host cities. Background: The arena has an elaborate steel structure, imported from Portugal, which envelops the playing area like an indigenous woven basket.
Slowly shame enveloped the duke.
Flames enveloped the plane a moment later.
An awkward silence enveloped the grounds.
