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How to use the word surrounded in a Sentence?

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We are not in Martian Kansas anymore, we’re flying over the dried-up remnants of an ancient river that is filled with sand dunes, boulders, and rocks, and surrounded by hills that could have us for lunch. And while we recently upgraded the navigation software onboard to help determine safe airfields, every flight is still a white-knuckler.

Josh Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was really high so I closed my eyes. I planned to open my eyes again when I bounced back up, i realized the cord had snapped when I opened my eyes and I was surrounded by water.

Courtesy Mike Mike

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a waggle dancer, you’re running forward, rushing at about one body length per second over this open dance floor that has holes in it, you’re surrounded by hundreds and thousands of bees that you have to push out of the way, and it’s in complete darkness.

James Nieh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to think about our people first and no one should be surrounded, encircled – this is very important, the military sees for themselves that we have to stay strong there despite the fact that Russia ruined the whole city and everything there.

President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Based on the data currently available, this star appears to have a slow-moving companion that is surrounded by a large disk of material, if that material were in the solar system, it would extend from the sun to Earth’s orbit, or farther.

Anastasios Tzanidakis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s an emergency right now, i ’m inside the building with this man. He has an AR-15. He shot a whole bunch of times … He’s in one room. I need a lot of firepower, I need this building surrounded, surrounded with as many AR-15s as possible.

Chief Pete Arredondo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's not really about me, it's about being surrounded by guys who want to put the work in every single day and the dedication to it, i want to be here for a long time, I believe this is a marriage and I want to be here for a long time. My goal is to be able to finish my career here.

Russell Wilson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These two have been in office since 1992. Prior to that, I think, in some form of elected office since the 1980s, that's a lot of time to be surrounded by staff.

Sean Patrick Maloney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We go all the way to France for the expedition, and there, surrounded by a much larger team, coming from a wide array of backgrounds, you realize that the piece of this robot you've been working on at Stanford is actually part of something much bigger, you get a sense of how important this is, how novel and significant the dive is going to be, and what this means for science overall.

Adrian Piedra

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not normal. Normally within the surrounded areas of St. Louis city, we may get flooding but it doesn't impact the inner city as much as it has this week.

Jacqueline Dace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And for three hours, the defeated former President of the United States watched it all happen as he sat in the comfort of the private dining room next to the Oval Office. While he was doing that, brave law enforcement officers were subject to the medieval hell for three hours, dripping in blood, surrounded by carnage.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m so happy to be here, because, man, these guys helped me so much, it’s emotional because I’ve gone through a lot… and these guys in this clubhouse, man, they’ve surrounded me, the fan base has surrounded me, it’s been just a special start to, I think, a wonderful Dodger career.

Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The world has become even more uncertain, japan is surrounded by actors that possess, or are developing, nuclear weapons, and that openly ignore rules.

Nobuo Kishi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My dad passed away peacefully Tuesday afternoon at his home surrounded by his family.

David Mineta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Israel's surrounded by enemies, Iran, Hezbollah out of Syria, Gaza, so I just think that they have a very delicate geopolitical balance that they need to keep, a lot of the strikes they conduct and things and activities that have to do against Iran in that region require deconflicting with the Russians, so there just in a tough spot. There's just some realities to their position, their vulnerability.

Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Israel is a strong ally of the United States, and they are surrounded by neighbors in a very dangerous part of the world. It's not Israel's job to win the war in Ukraine, and I think American politicians that are using the war in Ukraine to attack Israel are mistaken in doing so.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The town of Nova Kokhovka is surrounded [by Russian soldiers], and several other villages in that area are also occupied, there has been no water, food or medical aid [for the Ukrainian people there] for two or three days.

The Boston-area woman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve been surrounded by great people, when you get around great players, great coaches that are all committed and working in the same direction, pulling that rope in the same direction, good things can happen. When you have the right foundational pieces... because of those guys ’ success, other people get opportunities to grow.

Sean McVay

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The group was really amazing too, being surrounded by people who understand how it feels to struggle with your weight was really comforting and I really relied on their support throughout.

Verity Trueman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The most influential anchors on our network, the highest-paid, are men. My bosses, my executives, are men. The person who oversees CNN dayside is a man, and my executive producer for 10 years is a man. So I’ve been surrounded by a lot of men.

Brooke Baldwin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is with great sadness that on behalf of the Sir Frank family, the team can confirm the death of Sir Sir Frank CBE, Founder and Former Team Principal of Williams Racing, at the age of 79, after being admitted into hospital on Friday, Sir Frank passed away peacefully this morning surrounded by Sir Frank family.Read More.

The Williams F1 team

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you do not know the God, that's not really a problem; real problem starts when you are not aware that you are surrounded by the gifts of God.

Ganga Sagar Pant

added by adventure_p
2 years ago

The story being spun of us being overworked and surrounded by unsafe, chaotic conditions is bulls---.

Terese Davis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Love is surrounded by four failures. Failure to care until pushed. Failure to cure until heard. Failure to listen when confused. Failure to ignore when broken.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heathert.34240
2 years ago

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