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with all attention focused- She was so engrossed in her conversation, she didn't realize the bell had rung.
engrossed = with all attention focused
- She was so engrossed in a conversation that she didn't see me.
- 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
- But Milo was too engrossed in the circus to notice,Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth
- 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
- I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol
- She went away with the message, and, engrossed with our work, I clean forgot all about him.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- 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
- "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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Marion was acting like she couldn't hear us, engrossed in buffing a pinky nail.Sarah Dessen -- Someone Like You
- ...which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation,Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
- 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
- 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 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
- 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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