A theocracy engulfed the supernation and authorities forbade spaceflight for generations.

Campers scampered to higher ground when their campsite was engulfed in water.

Water is engulfing that island little by little every year.

The room was engulfed in darkness.

Love is like some fresh spring, that leaves its cresses, its gravel bed and flowers to become first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

The flood waters are predicted to engulf the town.

The grey goo engulfs everything.

The snake engulfs prey entirely by unhinging his jaw.

Engulfing the entire burger in one bite was no small challenge.

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."