How to use "surrounding" in a sentence

A man of his size probably wasn't frightened any more easily than Godzilla confronted by the pathetic bazooka-wielding soldiers surrounding doomed Tokyo.

Even in the dim, illusory light from the surrounding snow, Elliot could see that the sentry's eyes were fixed in the same unseeing gaze that Bellicosti was even now directing at the bathroom window.

When I got there, I found a little crowd of perhaps twenty people surrounding the great pit in which the cylinder lay

This rose up in a cloud shaped like a hill, then sank and spread itself slowly over the surrounding country