Verb
To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world. Dennis Kucinich
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. Huey P. Newton
Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought. Arthur Desmond
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe. Friedrich Schiller
The stars, like dust, encircle me In living mists of light; And all of space I seem to see In one vast burst of sight. Isaac Asimov