The sensation of being surrounded by thick, sweaty life was nearly overwhelming.

A metaphor is set up in the first stanza comparing humans to islands surrounded by life and the world around them, the sea.

The club's land tract was surrounded by rural life until the late 1970s when commercial interests started encroaching.

It lived around 37 million years ago and is surrounded here by such modern-looking life as lobsters and coral.

He was surrounded by life, but had never been so alone.

In Lower Manhattan, the great hole at ground zero seems even emptier because it is surrounded now by so much life.

It is surrounded by coral reefs and abundant marine life.

Here he was surrounded by life, death and whatever lay in between.

They're surrounded by real life; they don't need regurgitation of what's already around them.

I loved it here, a spot of stillness surrounded by life, humming like a thousand bees.