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Example sentences for "environ"

Lexicographically close words:
enviers; envies; envieth; envious; enviously; environed; environing; environment; environmental; environmentally
  1. The trials, hardships, and perils which always environ frontier life, were doubled and intensified in that mission.

  2. The Colonial Dragon includes the diseases, the wild beasts, the savages, and all manner of obstructions which environ a new country.

  3. Dreams haunt all the region of our intellectual twilight,--the borderland of mystery, where rise the sources of the occult and the mystical which environ our lives.

  4. Those laws environ everything that lives with a mighty network of necessity.

  5. And now having reached the foot of the mount and old druidical barrow, the flag is again waved amid the cheers of the surrounding thousands who line its sides, and in their carriages environ its ancient base.

  6. But, save in the removal of the outward forms of society, which now environ and hedge up your way, the active work in all this change in the most important human relations must be done by yourselves.

  7. Its use in Time is to environ us, Our breath, our drop of dew, with shield enough Against that sight till we can bear its stress.

  8. Have hope, though clouds environ now, And gladness hides her face in scorn: Put thou the sadness from thy brow, No night but hath its morn.

  9. Have hope, though clouds environ now, And gladness hides her face in scorn; Put thou the shadow from thy brow, No night but hath its morn.

  10. I retain for her, to my last moment, the most tender sentiments--I beseech her to watch, in order to preserve my son from the snares which yet environ his infancy.

  11. The fertile valley of Ipswich River is a veritable oasis among the rocks, moors and salt-marshes that environ it.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "environ" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.