Sentence examples for were encircled from inspiring English sources

He said they were encircled.

Protesters hurled fire bombs and rocks at riot police as they were encircled.

In the ensuing battle, Doria was killed, and the Genoese were encircled.

"We were encircled and had to resort to the use of firearms," said Mr. Yadav.

Many insulae were encircled with open or enclosed balconies of wood or concrete.

Guards stationed outside the house were encircled by an outer perimeter of guards with mounted machine guns.

Both parts of its two-section body were encircled by separate frames and cushioned by dodgem-car-type rubber bumpers.

The heat was oppressive, and they were encircled by swarms of piums — stinging insects that left splotches of blood on their skin.

We had to avoid several enormous uprooted trees, which were encircled by police tape, but other than that the course was in terrific shape.

In the second half they were encircled by Arsenal and needed a heroic performance in defence from Martin Skrtel and Dejan Lovren.

Vatutin's left wing, meanwhile, wheeled southward to converge with Konev's right, so that 10 German divisions were encircled near Korsun, on the Dnieper line south of Kiev.