Sentence examples for was being engulfed from inspiring English sources

One of the most academically prestigious capitals in the world was being engulfed in flames.

Despite my firm protests I was being engulfed in a bear hug by an Alaskan sea captain.

Charities last night warned that the social care system was being "engulfed by a galloping crisis" which was leaving the elderly in situations of fear and misery.

Throughout that decade the residue of a great side was dissipating and the Caribbean was being engulfed by football and the spreading tentacles of satellite television from the United States, with its black heroes slam-dunking rather than rattling out chin music.

If the answer was yes, my life for the next four years was overbooked: we had a seismic sensor to make and I was moving into a house that was being engulfed by creepers.

Kristen Kemp remembers lying on the floor of her bathroom believing she was being engulfed by unseen flame.

You were being engulfed, digested, shit out.

"We are being engulfed," a Royal Bahamas Defence Force senior commander, Raymond Farqhuarson, told Reuters.

That is the one about never interfering when your opponent is being engulfed with bad news.

Cameron and Osborne are being engulfed by epoch-changing attitudes to tax and the wealthy.

"We are being engulfed," Raymond Farqhuarson, a defence force senior commander, told journalists.