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.
  • 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
  • Glass walls with clear glass shelving enfold the formal dining room.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But there’s another loss enfolded into that one, a loss that’s just sort of…there.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Smoke and blackness enfolded him.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Here, the screen serves to connect the museum with the enfolding park and keep the two separate at the same time.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Image The area, enfolded by the city, seems modest, even discreet.
    — Scott Mowbray Amrita Chandradas, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Some may find this a bit too fine-grained, overly implicated in language’s self-enfolding folds.
    — Katie Kadue, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Come springtime, a perimeter of blossoming dogwoods will enfold the clearing in a cottony veil.
    — Curbed, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Hockey enfolded the team and the town in its grief almost immediately.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Gradually, the others enter to enfold her in a calming embrace.
    — Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
  • This process of reiteration leaves one feeling enfolded in the creases of Cole’s mind.
    — Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 June 2017
  • Hundreds of images show her embracing members of the public, friends, family, spreading her arms as wide as wings to enfold her sons.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Quite why police brass decided that reuniting them would be a recipe for successful sleuthing is a mystery greater than most enfolded in the film’s slow, lurching plot.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Some 40 million miles of roadways girdle our planet, four million of which enfold the United States.
    — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • What brings Roy to ultimately join his father is the first of the film’s enfolded, withheld revelations.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
  • But more than anything else, this enchantingly odd movie grows to enfold you in a lingering sense of melancholy that rings eerily true, especially right now.
    — Sara Stewart, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • George’s cluckingly affectionate aunt wants to enfold Hedda in a tradition that would consign her to the role of wife and mother.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026

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