Fear and despair engulfed me.
The monkey engulfed the food whole.
It has been engulfed, like the rest of the world, by recession and shrinking global trade.
The immediate consequence was to ignite a firestorm that engulfed Tunisia and the wider Middle East.
As insurgency engulfed the Americans, supply convoys became a favourite target.
A crowd, swelled by television crews, engulfed Statue Square, an adjacent plaza dominated by a bronze likeness of a dour Victorian banker.
The spectacle was all the more remarkable for being carried live on television, even as the waves engulfed flat farmland that offered no resistance.
Before today's lull came into effect, sounds of heavy gunfire and thick plumes of smoke engulfed the Zeitoun neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
Others said they had seen hundreds of guests, most of whom appeared to be westerners, emerge dazed from the Ritz-Carlton as plumes of thick smoke engulfed nearby buildings and restaurants.
