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List of antonyms from "encirclement" to antonyms from "encountered"


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Definition of the day : « encirclement »

  • As in blockade : noun barrier
Example sentences :
  • The fable of the war of defence was helped out with the fable of encirclement.
  • Extract from : « The War in the Air; Vol. 1 » by Walter Raleigh.
  • The English "arrangement" consisted in the encirclement of Germany.
  • Extract from : « The Kaiser's Memoirs » by William II, German Emperor
  • It was now a salient threatened with encirclement on the north and south.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of the Great War » by A. F. Pollard
  • By the shadow's echo of his movements, he could trace a vague outline of encirclement.
  • Extract from : « Shock Treatment » by Stanley Mullen
  • The union of these ambitions in a common course of action, duly planned, is what we call the "policy of encirclement."
  • Extract from : « The Kaiser's Memoirs » by William II, German Emperor
  • Little John Aylmer answered with an ecstatic chuckle of delight, and wriggled hurriedly into the encirclement of his friend's arm.
  • Extract from : « The Pursuit » by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile
  • All expected that the next attack would be upon the city, an attempt at encirclement from the north and from the south.
  • Extract from : « The Challenge of the Dead » by Stephen Graham
  • He reached the misty outskirts of the mass and began its encirclement, drawing a little nearer to its center with every circuit.
  • Extract from : « Tam O' The Scoots » by Edgar Wallace
  • The Greek frontier was a feeble protection, and the French at Kavadar were threatened with encirclement on their left.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of the Great War » by A. F. Pollard
  • A Turco-Korean alliance would have meant for China a sort of encirclement that might have grave consequences.
  • Extract from : « A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] » by Wolfram Eberhard