Sentence examples for going to engulf from inspiring English sources

If you had looked back to the beginning of 1997, you would know that the Thai economy was not completely well, but you would have had no reason to suspect that a major disaster was going to engulf the region.

The number of pensioners in the UK is going to engulf the population.

This is what it comes down to: read it and weep. 1. Loads of Them – not very many of Us The number of pensioners in the UK is going to engulf the population.

That property developers don't necessarily cherry-pick their locations based on what small businesses they're going to engulf doesn't come into it: these people – a large portion of whom are working class – can't see beyond a part of not just their day-to-day lives, but their heritage, being swept away.

If the sun is eventually going to explode and engulf the Earth, what's the point of mailing your Verizon bill?

"Now, the economic problems are going to broaden out and engulf the entire country".

Britain, France and the US, as well as their allies, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, need to recognise that neither side is going to win the civil war engulfing Syria.

People were frantic to follow these naked women and I felt like was going to get trampled as the crowd engulfed the sidewalk.

Stringy mouse macrophages (green), a type of immune cell, go to work engulfing a fungal invader (blue) in this microscopist's portrait of the body's battle against infections.

Why didn't we see what was going to happen, the cry goes up as the financial crisis engulfs the real economy and the UN forecasts that job losses could reach 50 million.

"What in the world am I ever going to do with the Niggers?" Jim Folsom once muttered, when the backlash against Brown began to engulf his political career.