Sentence examples for was to encircle from inspiring English sources
The second was to encircle the cities.
My work was to encircle the city with this thin line that was barely visible.
Johnson also refined remarks by the US defence secretary, Ash Carter, that an assault on Raqqa was imminent in the next few weeks, saying instead the aim was to encircle the city as soon as possible.
When an exceptionally serious situation for our army developed in the Kharkov region in 1942, we correctly decided to drop an operation whose objective was to encircle [the city].
The allied objective was to encircle Humaitá and force its capitulation by siege.
The aim of the operation was to encircle Partisan forces located within the Kostajnica forest and the area north of Bosanski Novi.
The object appeared to be to encircle the city, cutting rebel supply lines to Turkey.
The dancers' final move is to encircle the band several times.
The hope would be to encircle many of the Iraqi forces in Kuwait, including the infantry forces on the front lines who have little mobility.
It is in war, finally, that laurels are to be gathered, and it is the executive brow they are to encircle.
On the contrary, that sort of talk is liable only to reinforce China's fear that America's grand strategic design is to encircle it and block its rise as a great power.
