Get to know Engulfed better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like enveloped or swallowed.
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Engulfed meaning
simple past and past participle of engulf
Using Engulfed
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of engulf
- Useful related words include: enveloped, swallowed, enclosed.
- In the example corpus, engulfed often appears in combinations such as: engulfed in, engulfed the, was engulfed.
Context around Engulfed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Engulfed
- In this selection, "engulfed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fully, flames, fire, trees and spain stand out and add context to how "engulfed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include already was engulfed in flames and and rapidly engulfed the seaside. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "engulfed" sits close to words such as attracts, consolidation and constructing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with engulfed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As the passengers rushed to safety the inside of the vehicle was engulfed by smoke. (15 words)
A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after a house was engulfed in flames. (16 words)
A huge fire engulfed a coastal community in Barangay Pusok in Lapu-Lapu City on Tuesday afternoon. (17 words)
Ana Benevides, 23, collapsed and later died of cardiac arrest just before the Eras Tour show on Friday as deadly heat engulfed Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos, boiling attendees in temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. (34 words)
But regrettably, the federal government owned agency which is the only one in South East Nigeria, had over the years been engulfed in an unending crisis which affected it’s productivity for many years. (34 words)
By the time fire crews arrived, the blaze had engulfed the house on Normanskill Road in the town of New Scotland, about 8 miles (13 kilometers) west of New York’s Capitol. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
A blaze at an iconic Staffordshire pub, the Crooked House, has engulfed the building as firefighters battle to save it.
A huge fire engulfed a coastal community in Barangay Pusok in Lapu-Lapu City on Tuesday afternoon.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after a house was engulfed in flames.
Ana Benevides, 23, collapsed and later died of cardiac arrest just before the Eras Tour show on Friday as deadly heat engulfed Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos, boiling attendees in temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
A news release says that when officers and Eden Prairie firefighters arrived at the scene, the aircraft was fully engulfed in flames.
Approximately 40 firefighters from Hancock and seven other nearby towns responded, but much of it already was engulfed in flames by the time the first firefighters arrived.
Arriving firefighters reported seeing the home fully engulfed by fire, with flames coming out of the front and back of the house.
A similar blaze Wednesday at an oil reservoir in the nearby village of Volna engulfed 1,200 square metres, with officials also blaming a drone crash.
As the McDougall Creek wildfire burned bright and hot on Thursday night, flames engulfed trees, sending sparks flying in the wind across Okanagan Lake.
As the passengers rushed to safety the inside of the vehicle was engulfed by smoke.
A structure is engulfed in flames as a wildfire called the Highland Fire burns in Aguanga, California on Oct 30, 2023.
A video posted on social media by a coal truck driver on Wednesday showed rocks cascading down a slope, kicking up clouds of dust that engulfed several vehicles.
Brushfires on the west coast of Hawaii's Maui island -- fueled by high winds from a nearby hurricane -- broke out Tuesday and rapidly engulfed the seaside town of Lahaina.
But it carried a double meaning: the outspoken Casals adapted the folk song for cello as a plea for his native Catalonia, after civil war engulfed Spain.
But regrettably, the federal government owned agency which is the only one in South East Nigeria, had over the years been engulfed in an unending crisis which affected it’s productivity for many years.
By the time fire crews arrived, the blaze had engulfed the house on Normanskill Road in the town of New Scotland, about 8 miles (13 kilometers) west of New York’s Capitol.
By the time the National Fire Authority and Police arrived, the second-story was already engulfed in flames.
Crews from Wallsend and Minmi attended the scene to find a large bulldozer fully engulfed in flames.
Dee suffered two broken feet in the fall from her bedroom window as flames engulfed her home in Johnstown, Navan, in September 2022.
Dressed in black five hooded arsonists can be seen lighting Bar 38 in Glenside on fire, and it quickly becomes engulfed in flames.
Common combinations with engulfed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- engulfed in 79×
- engulfed the 41×
- was engulfed 32×
- engulfed by 19×
- has engulfed 17×
- fully engulfed 17×
- that engulfed 16×
- fire engulfed 14×
- been engulfed 13×
- flames engulfed 7×