The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.
The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was growing up and always wanted to be surrounded by wildlife.
I don't type my sentences on an arena's pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing fans - I don't feel pressure to please a crowd.
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.
To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.
I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible.
When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
I want to be surrounded by the best possible wrestlers, and Evolve, from top to bottom, there is no filler on that roster.
I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.
I'm surrounded by good people, and I surround myself with good people.
I grew up surrounded by both Haitian and Japanese culture.