What is "engulf"

Usage examples of "engulf".

It became marshmallowy, gradually closing around her, relentlessly engulfing her, as though it were a living, amoeboid creature.

And in their effort to keep themselves from being engulfed in the apostacy of a great leader, the scientists, as by a unanimous chorus, announce that the scientific dogmas which enter more or less essentially into their atheistic conception of the universe, are nothing but surmises!

A wave of heat engulfed me once more as the fire bloomed out from the broad staircase to the foyer and lobby area, gusts of air sucked in from the blitzed entrance exciting the flames.

When Beverly left the King Croesus, depression engulfed her again and she felt tempted to stop somewhere for a drink.

Here was himself in absurd green-striped nightshirt here was Miranda in white lace-trimmed nightgown once belonging to a daughter of Doctor Fearnaught here was utter engulfing blackness where people could speak from their hearts.

Too frightened to run, Goran stood petrified as the black wall advanced, engulfing the red rocks of the desert.

His own hand was engulfed by the huge and calloused extremity with hooflike nails.

And in that moment of pain and shock, in that moment of very human loss, there shone a bright seam in the dark shroud that engulfed his spirit.

It moved north from Ursal to engulf Palmaris, and as soon as the city fell under his control, all of the Masur Delaval, the great river that cut through the kingdom, bloodied.

The fourteen Plumas tankers, even the small cargo and passenger cruisers, were filled to bursting with wentals, enough to engulf the drogues in a massive, multipronged assault.

A tongue of flame snaked from the end of the burning blade, and in an instant the Orisha warrior was engulfed in heavenly fire.

There was a synergistic outsurge of energy, a sphere that engulfed them both, though Marcus took the worst of it.

Her clothes were silken, the paenula so extensive that it surrounded and engulfed her in vast folds of shimmering red.

Thick white billows wrapped its long oval form like a paramecium engulfed by an amoeba.

As the tide engulfed her magnificent breasts, she stretched her neck to take in one last breath of fetid air, and in a pure ecstasy of terror Katrina Switch slowly commenced her final sadomasochistic epiphany.