encased; encasing; encases
: to enclose in or as if in a case
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Examples of encase in a Sentence
Ice encased the trees and power lines after the storm.
fear of the outside world can encase a person just as surely as stone walls
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The photo features Perry dressed in a skimpy white bikini, her legs encased in what look like metallic pegasus legs and her arms tucked into her voluminous black hair.
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 June 2024
The tenders are lightly breaded and fried until completely encased in a crunchy, golden shell.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
Rooms start at 300 square feet (The Classic) and extend up to 975 square feet (The Apartment Suite, which is equipped with a kitchen, spacious living area, and terrace), and all boast dreamy goose-down duvets encased in sumptuous linens and topped off with fluffy feather pillows.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2024
The workers called the cops, who found a fully intact skeleton encased in concrete and wrapped in a rug.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 June 2024
The tenders are lightly breaded and fried until completely encased in a crunchy, golden shell.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
Rooms start at 300 square feet (The Classic) and extend up to 975 square feet (The Apartment Suite, which is equipped with a kitchen, spacious living area, and terrace), and all boast dreamy goose-down duvets encased in sumptuous linens and topped off with fluffy feather pillows.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2024
The workers called the cops, who found a fully intact skeleton encased in concrete and wrapped in a rug.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
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“Encase.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/encase. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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