Sample Sentences for
engrossed
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engrossed as in:  engrossed in the book

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  • All of us were so engrossed in the battle that no one saw a mule wagon halt on the road and a giant man step out.  (source)
  • She's taciturn, but so am I. Is she waiting for me to start something, reveal myself, or is she a believer, engrossed in inner meditation?  (source)
  • They were so engrossed in each other that she didn't see me until I was five feet away.  (source)
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  • She went away with the message, and, engrossed with our work, I clean forgot all about him.  (source)
    engrossed = with all attention focused
  • I sat, a model of patience, trying to attract his absorbed attention from its engrossing speculation; till he grew irritable, and got up, asking why I would not allow him to have his own time in taking his meals?†  (source)
  • His paper would then engross his thoughts.†  (source)
  • Why else would they have sent the engrosser?†  (source)
  • You have no idea how engrossing such a profession may become—how imbecile, in view of that engrossment, appear the ways of princes, of republics, of municipalities.†  (source)
  • ...which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation,  (source)
    engrosses = takes all
  • Your farm, profits, crops—to think how engross'd you are, To think there will still be farms, profits, crops, yet for you of what avail?†  (source)
  • This bitter taste Yields his engrossments to the ending father.†  (source)
  • Winter, spring, and summer passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves—sights which before always yielded me supreme delight—so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.  (source)
    engrossed = with all attention focused
  • It will be most engrossing to watch your friends and your rocket vanish once I have killed you.†  (source)
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