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Definition of "ensconcing" [ensconcing]

  • Present participle of ensconce. (verb)

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Use "ensconcing" in a sentence
  • ""It's absolutely ridiculous that I should have a view on that," he spluttered, as though his shtick were painstaking biological psychiatry, instead of ensconcing himself on daytime TV sofas and telling 38-stone women he'd deduced they had a complex relationship with food."
  • "On the broadcast networks, preliminary Nielsen data showed that Suburgatory's second outing slipped a relatively small 7 percent, neatly ensconcing itself in ABC's Wednesday comedy block, while Free Agents performed so poorly again that it got cut from NBC's lineup."
  • "Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear."
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