Example sentences for: surround

How can you use “surround” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The impressive outer pylon was erected in the second century b.c. to surround the older inner sanctum.

  • These date from around 1250 b.c. and surround and protect the inner sanctum through which the only entrance is the world-famous Lion’s Gate decorated with the earliest known monumental sculpture in Europe.

  • Several handsome 16th–18th-century mansions surround the square, including the Banco de Portugal building and the Palácio Belmarço.

  • Here is a situation in which the polar body genes (in the membranes surrounding the proliferating embryos) might have very different selective optima for levels of between-sibling aggressiveness—and even for rates of development—than the genes in the embryos they surround, and (because they apparently mediate the nutrition of the embryos) they might be able to influence how the embryos develop.

  • Early on, Nelson got into the habit of tapping his own financial resources to surround himself with talented people.


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