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SURROUND
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surround I. verb tranzitiv
1. a înconjura / a împrejmui, a îngrădi.
2. (mil.) a împresura, a încercui (inamicul).
surround II. substantiv
împrejmuire; încadrare; bordură.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
But he still lived a public life, in a cage, surrounded by curious men.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
At my alighting, I was surrounded with a crowd of people, but those who stood nearest seemed to be of better quality.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Close on the heels of these two famous cases came the tragedy of Woodman’s Lee, and the very obscure circumstances which surrounded the death of Captain Peter Carey.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Watch the days that immediately surround November 27 for news that you are close to a breakthrough on an important project.
(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)
I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continually engaged in endeavouring to bestow mutual pleasure—I was now alone.
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Seeing that they were surrounded the men tightened their reins and drew up.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
A large hedge of thorns soon grew round the palace, and every year it became higher and thicker; till at last the old palace was surrounded and hidden, so that not even the roof or the chimneys could be seen.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
Large as was the building, she had already visited the greatest part; though, on being told that, with the addition of the kitchen, the six or seven rooms she had now seen surrounded three sides of the court, she could scarcely believe it, or overcome the suspicion of there being many chambers secreted.
(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)
I felt, of course, that she had taken to occupy it, in remembrance of him; and that the many tokens of his old sports and accomplishments, by which she was surrounded, remained there, just as he had left them, for the same reason.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
The molecules and compounds such as nutrients and growth factors in the fluid surrounding a cell in an organism or in the laboratory, which play an important role in determining the characteristics of the cell.
(Microenvironment, Editura Global Info)