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)
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    "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.  (source)
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    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)
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    They were so engrossed in each other that she didn't see me until I was five feet away.  (source)
    engrossed = with all attention focused
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    The guests were not disappointed: they had a very pleasant feast, in fact an engrossing entertainment: rich, abundant, varied, and prolonged.†  (source)
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    His paper would then engross his thoughts.†  (source)
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    Why else would they have sent the engrosser?†  (source)
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    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)
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    I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.  (source)
    engrosses = absorbs all attention from
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    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)
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    This bitter taste Yields his engrossments to the ending father.†  (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
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    Sometimes when we're driving through the capital, Jacqueline points out one impressive building or another and says, "Papa built that," She is less ready to talk about the second wife, the new, engrossing family, stepbrothers and sisters the age of her own little one.†  (source)
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