The port was engulfed by ten-meter-high waves.

Water is engulfing that island little by little every year.

Red tongues of flame and searing gusts of heat engulfed the house.

The grey goo engulfs everything.

The flood waters are predicted to engulf the town.

He will spend the next four years in the jungle, engulfed in mud and filth.

The room was engulfed in darkness.

All history shows: idioms of dominant states often lead to the disappearance of the languages of the dominated states. Greek engulfed the Phrygian. Latin killed the Iberian and Gallic. Currently, 25 languages are disappearing every year! Understand one thing: I'm not fighting against English, I fight for diversity. An Armenian proverb wonderfully summarizes my thought: "The more languages you know, the more you are a person."

Then first with eager joy / "O Goddess-born," the bold Achates cries, / "how now? What purpose doth thy mind devise? / Lo! all are safe – ships, comrades brought again; / one only fails us, who before our eyes / sank in the midst of the engulfing main. / All else confirms the tale thy mother told thee plain."

Yanni's home was engulfed in flames.