engulf

If a planet ventures too close to its host star, the star's gravity can drag it inward and eventually engulf it.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

The arrest is one of the biggest scandals to engulf the spy agency since its creation in the mid-1950s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Researchers have found that it also helps epithelial cells, which form continuous sealed layers throughout the body, engulf nearby dead cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026

"Then there was fog, smoke, something that seemed to suddenly engulf us," Muthunathan, 46, told AFP on Friday, showing a phone video she recorded of a torrent surging towards her.

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

I guess I wasn’t exactly what she’d had in mind, a dainty daughter to help her bail against the rising tide of the rough-and-tumble boyish energy that always threatened to engulf the house.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Scaffolding engulfs the inside of the giant multi-billion-dollar structure, rising all the way up to the 100-metre-high ceiling.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

By soon, they mean any time before the sun engulfs us all, which will happen sometime in the next five billion years.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025

A staff member sits in an air-conditioned cab so they are protected from the dust, which engulfs the tunnels when the machine operates.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025

Take, for example, the wildfire smoke that now regularly engulfs my city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2024

A blinding flash of light engulfs Asher for an instant.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

Yemen remains engulfed in a devastating civil war which has lasted more than a decade.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

One local resident captured dramatic footage of the fire at its peak, with explosive bangs emitting from an area engulfed in flames.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

It connected the molecular assembly to the cell's internal skeleton, allowing force to be transmitted across the surface of the material being engulfed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026

The Clippers’ offseason was engulfed by the NBA’s salary-cap circumvention investigation into the team’s endorsement deals with Kawhi Leonard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The usual tightness engulfed them; Harry’s feet parted company with the snowy ground, then slammed hard onto what felt like frozen earth covered with leaves.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Whatever the reality, the storm currently engulfing the AI industry could already have caused reputational damage to the firms currently in pole position forever.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

"Parents came from all over looking for their children. That's when I saw a huge fire engulfing our school built of wooden planks," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

A parallel panic is also engulfing the Pentagon, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his loyalists are scrambling to contain a massive internal leak.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

Glowing magenta, she twirled above what looked to be a rising river, a physical representation of the swirling, engulfing thoughts that anxiety can provoke as she performed the song by the same name.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

“Aguamenti!” screamed Hermione, and a jet of water streamed from her wand, engulfing a spluttering and choking Mundungus.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling