Sample sentences for ENGROSSED

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with all attention focused

engrossed = with all attention focused

engrossed = with all attention focused

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?
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale

engrossed = with all attention focused

But Milo was too engrossed in the circus to notice,
Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth

engrossed = with all attention focused

Uncle Willie was engrossed in the Almanac, his nightly reading, and my brother was far away on a raft on the Mississippi.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

engrossed = with all attention focused

I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

engrosses = absorbs all attention from

She went away with the message, and, engrossed with our work, I clean forgot all about him.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

engrossed = with all attention focused

So engrossed was she that she had no consciousness of being observed, and one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

engrossed = with all attention focused

"God, I loved that guy," Dad said, and immediately they were engrossed in a basketball conversation I could not (and did not want to) join, so I took my tulips inside.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

engrossed = with all attention focused

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.
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

engrossed = with all attention focused

One bright summer's morning Silas had been more engrossed than usual in "setting up" a new piece of work, an occasion on which his scissors were in requisition.
George Eliot -- Silas Marner

engrossed = with all attention focused

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.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

engrossed = with all attention focused

His mother was not far away in front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but then she suddenly...
Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis

engrossed = with all attention focused

Marion was acting like she couldn't hear us, engrossed in buffing a pinky nail.
Sarah Dessen -- Someone Like You

engrossed = with all attention focused

...which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation,
Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

engrosses = takes all

And we become engrossed in it, and sometimes I forget myself and where I am, and I forget how crazy this would seem if someone else from Felling stumbled into the quarry tonight.
David Almond -- Clay

engrossed = with all attention focused

They were so engrossed in each other that she didn't see me until I was five feet away.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

engrossed = with all attention focused

Engrossed in a mystery, I was startled when the comfortable sounds were shattered by three rapid knocks on the side door.
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

engrossed = with all attention focused

Dear Sir: By this mail I take pleasure in sending you engrossed copies of the souvenir of the visit of the President to your institution.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
Matching their steps, they padded down the remaining stairs and snuck across the room, never taking their eyes off the engrossed magicians.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr

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