How to Use enfold in a Sentence

enfold

verb
  • We watched as darkness enfolded the city.
  • The dish is made of vegetables enfolded in a pastry crust.
  • To serve, wrap a slice of bread around the skewer and pull the meat off the stick, enfolding the meat in the bread to make a sandwich.
    — Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Let all the tumult within me cease, Lord, enfold me in your peace.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Let all the tumult within me cease, enfold me, Lord, in your peace.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 12 Oct. 2022
  • What follows is a saga that enfolds the whole conflict.
    — Karan Mahajan, New York Times, 9 June 2017
  • His words and smiles enfolded me in his special circle, anointing me the adult among the kids, the big deal among the strugs.
    — Tess McNulty, Harper's Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
  • With a book by Lynn Nottage, the show focuses on the lead-up to that record-smashing tour, but still enfolds a heck of a playlist.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2024
  • And once again, in what’s become a trend in recent years, the game outshined the commerce that enfolded it.
    — Seth Stevenson, Slate Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Glass walls with clear glass shelving enfold the formal dining room.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Image The area, enfolded by the city, seems modest, even discreet.
    — Scott Mowbray Amrita Chandradas, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • But there’s another loss enfolded into that one, a loss that’s just sort of…there.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
  • On the back wall, a pensive woman enfolded in a flowing blue dress sews together a swatch of green fabric that has been ripped in two.
    — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
  • But since the shooting in Butler, Pa., tech leaders have enfolded Trump in a very public embrace.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • The way Colman enfolded himself into the family, into the group, that’s a bond that’s gonna last forever with each one of us.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Some 40 million miles of roadways girdle our planet, four million of which enfold the United States.
    — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The works trick the eye into seeing the places where beauty becomes enfolded with violence, where the gleam of the universe is inflected with gore.
    — Zoë Hopkins, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
  • One of your toughest jobs as a grandmother is to find ways to enfold your granddaughter’s siblings into your world.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2018
  • One of your toughest jobs as a grandmother is to find ways to enfold your granddaughter's siblings into your world.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Their finest use: for toritos, flour tortillas enfolding a roasted Anaheim chile that’s split to cradle cheese and one of the aforementioned three meats.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
  • Fourteen suites and guest rooms (with four more in the pipeline) and a pair of apartments enfold a courtyard shaded by umbrella pines and a century-old Lebanon cedar.
    — Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2021
  • Come springtime, a perimeter of blossoming dogwoods will enfold the clearing in a cottony veil.
    — Curbed, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Fourteen guest rooms and a pair of apartments enfold a courtyard shaded by umbrella pines and a century-old Lebanon cedar.
    — Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2023
  • Devil enfolds him in a baffling swirl of sordid hallways-of-power intrigue.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The Longfellow Hotel, by contrast, enfolds visitors in comfort while gently nudging them to see the city.
    — Lila Harron Battis, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2024
  • This process of reiteration leaves one feeling enfolded in the creases of Cole’s mind.
    — Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 June 2017
  • Hockey enfolded the team and the town in its grief almost immediately.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Asheville, North Carolina enfolds you in its hills and valleys, perfect for a couple’s getaway for Valentine’s Day and beyond.
    — Verna Gates, al, 17 Feb. 2020
  • The United States drew on its increasing supply of bodies and of wealth to destroy, bypass, or enfold Native nations on its march to the Pacific.
    — David Treuer, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The author draws on this cult of the Virgin to enfold her grandmother in eternal, biblical (rather than geopolitical) time.
    — Gaiutra Bahadur, New York Times, 10 May 2018

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