Sentence examples for to encompass all from inspiring English sources
verb
To form a circle around; to encircle.
"Harold seemed to me to encompass all that and more.
The flag, meanwhile, is supposed to encompass all who live under its Southern Cross.
It's challenging to encompass all of my emotions into the work".
Some sports are seen to encompass all the qualities of national character.
Most of the pieces in the first four parts are short, although it takes two CD's to encompass all 32.
Some words have definitions that go on for pages and seem to encompass all possible meanings; others are outlandishly precise.
Here, he used "survival machine" rather than "animal" because he wanted to encompass all plants and humans, too.
He seems to encompass all my friend's worst characteristics - attention seeking, indulgence, neediness - without any of her redeeming features.
It satisfies a craving for immediacy and ephemerality, one that has lately grown to encompass all of social media.
A proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas, to encompass all 34 western-hemisphere democracies, is in cold storage.
Critics said the law's definitions of terrorist crimes are vague enough to encompass all manner of activity.
