Sentence examples for ringed them from inspiring English sources

Here generations of fishermen and peasants lived in precarious safety, protected by the marshlands that ringed them round.

Officials in Mr. Arafat's compound said tanks and armored personnel carriers had fully ringed them and bulldozers had breached a hole in the wall.

He ringed them for identification and caged them in the winter to prevent their annual migration.

A future New York may be ringed with them too, as it was centuries ago.

Set on piles, with sections of mesh floor, you are very aware of being out on the wilds of the marshes – the water and waterlife below you, including rare water voles, and the birdlife wheeling across the Rainham, Wennington and Aveley marshes so close to London: peregrines, avocets, lapwings, little egrets and ringed plovers among them.

He had implored them to organise a demonstration to try to persuade the security forces who ringed the cellars to let them out.

American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash — all of them — surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered with rubbish.

Labour's shadow energy minister Tom Greatrex said allowing fracking under protected areas could lead them to be "ringed by shale gas operators".

Hours later, in the leisure centre, he will be ringed by squealing youngsters, many of them pre-teens, all of them white.

To avoid resampling, birds were ringed using colored rings.

The protesters, fewer than 200, were met by about 300 counterdemonstrators holding up banners showing solidarity with the refugees, while 90 riot police officers, dressed in black protective clothing, ringed the two groups to keep them apart.