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  • She has an engaging writing style and a good turn of phrase.
    engaging = interesting
  • I admire her civic engagement and service to the community.
    engagement = meaningful interaction
  • 10% reported that they engage in at least one argument during most days.
    engage = participate
  • At the time, she was engaged in a research project at Stanford.
    engaged = involved
  • My confidence in you has been seriously diminished since I heard about the disreputable activities in which you engaged on Thursday last.   (source)
    engaged = were involved
  • When the men try to engage him in conversation, he responds with words of encouragement, trying to turn their fear into hope.   (source)
    engage = involve
  • I don't know what caused the transformation, why suddenly I could engage with the great thinkers of the past, rather than revere them to the point of muteness.   (source)
    engage = interact (with their ideas)
  • Like I've mentioned before, you need to be engaged, look at the jurors now and then …   (source)
    engaged = involved (showing interest)
  • The spitting was due to the fact that she and Rosa Hubermann were engaged in some kind of decade-long verbal war.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • Martha tried to engage Gus in conversation, kneeling down next to him and saying, "You've always had such beautiful eyes."   (source)
    engage = involve
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  • A reticence broken only by her secret, droopy smiles and the furtive, apologetic looks she cast my way when the general's attention was engaged elsewhere.   (source)
    engaged = occupied (involved)
  • We are forbidden to engage in any combative exercise with another tribute.   (source)
    engage = get involved
  • From what I can see, each fight you've engaged in has resolved one problem or another.   (source)
    engaged = been involved
  • The Japanese turned on civilians, engaging in killing contests, raping tens of thousands of people, mutilating and crucifying them, and provoking dogs to maul them.   (source)
    engaging = being involved
  • It is hardly unusual for a young man to be drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders; engaging in risky behavior is a rite of passage in our culture no less than in most others.   (source)
  • Boxes lined the walls and the center floor had been cleared for dancing—several older couples from Great Faith were already engaged in movements I had never seen before.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • They were engaged in some wild conversation that made no sense to anyone but themselves.   (source)
  • According to Laura, on all of these occasions — and there had been only three of them — she and Alex Thomas had been engaged in serious discussion.   (source)
  • He was engaged in a rebellion she didn't completely understand.   (source)
  • The rumor mill informed me that the dinner was a kind of intermediate interview: We needed to be funny, charming, and engaging, or we'd never be invited to the D.C. or New York offices for final interviews.   (source)
    engaging = interesting
  • Packed tightly together, the soldiers had at first engaged in animated speculation on what might await them.   (source)
    engaged = participated
  • Usually detached and cool under pressure, Fache tonight seemed emotionally engaged, as if this were somehow a personal matter for him.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • It was so sweet and the dough was so flaky, every millimeter of my mouth was engaged, taking over the rest of my senses entirely.   (source)
  • He became so engaged in the work that he asked the federal judge he was clerking for after law school if he could cut short his two-year clerkship to join us in Alabama.   (source)
    engaged = interested
  • Joe often engaged in split conversations of this sort.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • Aunt Alexandra got up from the table and swiftly passed more refreshments, neatly engaging Mrs. Merriweather and Mrs. Gates in brisk conversation.   (source)
    engaging = involving
  • To lessen his fears, Jack tried to engage the Milliner in a little chitchat.   (source)
    engage = involve
  • Normally, orbits would be worked out by Vogel, but he was otherwise engaged.   (source)
    engaged = busy
  • You will answer yes or no. Is it true that you have engaged with the Widow Tupper in various enchantments with the direct intent of causing mischief to certain people?   (source)
    engaged = been involved
  • DANFORTH, himself engaged and entered by Abigail:  Mary Warren, do you witch her? I say to you, do you send your spirit out?   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • English and American troops are already engaged in heavy combat.   (source)
  • He "was eminently engaging and social and he had a keen sense of humor," his partners wrote.   (source)
    engaging = interesting
  • Saeed did not ask Nadia to pray with him for his father, and she did not offer, but when he was gathering a circle of acquaintances to pray in the long evening shadow cast by their dormitory, she said she would like to join the circle, to sit with Saeed and the others, even if not engaged in supplication herself, and he smiled and said there was no need.   (source)
    engaged = participating
  • Sacks and boxes were piled high waiting to be delivered to the ships that sailed the Sea of Knowledge, and off to one side a group of minstrels sang songs to the delight of those either too young or too old to engage in trade.   (source)
    engage = get involved
  • Through hard work and a tight budget, Larry was able to support his family so Janice could be the full-time, dependable, engaged mother she'd never had.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • He has no propensity to engage in a political career.   (source)
    engage = get involved
  • Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • Half a dozen nurses ... were engaged in setting out bowls of roses in a long row across the floor.   (source)
  • Eluding Jordan's undergraduate, who was now engaged in an obstetrical conversation with two chorus girls, and who implored me to join him, I went inside.   (source)
  • When I told her that I must go at once, and that I was engaged on important business, she asked again: "Do you know what day it is?"   (source)
  • In the way of literary talk, it is true, the Naval Officer—an excellent fellow, who came into the office with me, and went out only a little later—would often engage me in a discussion about one or the other of his favourite topics, Napoleon or Shakespeare.   (source)
    engage = involve
  • The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • Two years passed in this manner, during which I paid no visit to Geneva, but was engaged, heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries which I hoped to make.   (source)
    engaged = occupied (involved)
  • ...although there doubtless are such unconquerable young ladies of eighteen ... as are never to be persuaded into love against their judgment by all that talent, manner, attention, and flattery can do, I have no inclination to believe Fanny one of them ... had not her affection been engaged elsewhere.   (source)
    engaged = occupied or attracted
  • My attempts to engage him in conversation went nowhere.   (source)
    engage = involve
  • Or, for that matter, engage in any kind of physical exertion.   (source)
    engage = participate (take part)
  • The public hasn't been this engaged in ship construction since Apollo 11.   (source)
    engaged = interested
  • "British landing craft are engaged in combat with German naval units," according to the BBC.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • She appears to have no children or family, no one who engages with her or shows her affection.   (source)
    engages = interacts in a serious way
  • But they were standing in the middle of it, and he was already engaged in exactly that.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • She liked working with her husband and often watched him when he was engaged with a customer.   (source)
  • Unlike most people engaged in the various arts of thievery, Viktor Chemmel had it all.   (source)
  • Professors here like to engage with students.   (source)
    engage = interact
  • The public is engaged, and we will do our best to keep everyone informed.   (source)
    engaged = interested
  • If we are to engage in war, our game will be to attack where we can.   (source)
    engage = get involved
  • I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • He was engaged in a passionate discussion with a handful of young men about an anti–atomic bomb demonstration in April.   (source)
  • More compelling than their testimony, however, is the casual shoptalk they engage in while waiting in the corridor to take the stand.   (source)
    engage = participate
  • The early Church feared that if the lineage were permitted to grow, the secret of Jesus and Magdalene would eventually surface and challenge the fundamental Catholic doctrine—that of a divine Messiah who did not consort with women or engage in sexual union.   (source)
    engage = participate (take part)
  • Most of us were simply wrapped too tightly in the grip of summit fever to engage in thoughtful reflection about the death of someone in our midst.   (source)
  • Its bloody light burned down on the Chessboard Desert through a cloud-clotted sky, toxic vapors burping continuously out of the factory engaged in manufacturing Redd's war machines.   (source)
    engaged = occupied (involved)
  • Many of these children develop criminal records for behavior that more affluent children engage in with impunity.   (source)
    engage = get involved
  • Atticus strolled over to Miss Maudie's sidewalk, where they engaged in an arm-waving conversation, the only phrase of which I caught was "…erected an absolute morphodite in that yard!"   (source)
    engaged = participated
  • She would call out "Hey!" to perfect strangers, show them to a table, engage them in animated conversation, dance with them, and then move on to chat with others.   (source)
    engage = involve
  • He approaches two men, one older than the other, busily engaged in bricklaying, and squats down beside a pile of bricks awaiting placement.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • Sophie had come home a few days early from graduate university in England and mistakenly witnessed her grandfather engaged in something Sophie was obviously not supposed to see.   (source)
    engaged = occupied (involved)
  • Then, in 1921, the British embarked on their first expedition to Everest, and their decision to engage Sherpas as helpers sparked a transformation of Sherpa culture.   (source)
    engage = involve
  • Are we tough enough to build a church that forces kids like me to engage with the world rather than withdraw from it?   (source)
    engage = get involved
  • He began to suspect that his friends might indeed be correct in believing that Holmes and Julia were engaged in an illicit affair.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • For all his interest at the hearing, he had never seemed particularly engaged over the basic question of whether Walter was guilty or innocent.   (source)
    engaged = interested
  • Holmes denied that he and Julia had ever engaged each other physically, or that she had undergone "a criminal operation," a then-current euphemism for abortion.   (source)
    engaged = been involved with
  • It appeared that they had engaged in fresh conspiracies from the very moment of their release.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • Winston wondered whether Comrade Tillotson was engaged on the same job as himself.   (source)
  • From now onwards Animal Farm would engage in trade with the neighboring farms: not, of course, for any commercial purpose, but simply in order to obtain certain materials which were urgently necessary.   (source)
    engage = participate (take part)
  • No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade.   (source)
    engage = get involved
  • Never to have any dealings with human beings, never to engage in trade, never to make use of money — had not these been among the earliest resolutions passed at that first triumphant Meeting after Jones was expelled?   (source)
  • Fortunately the piece of work he was engaged on was mere routine, the rectification of a long list of figures, not needing close attention.   (source)
    engaged = busy (involved with)
  • He assured them that the resolution against engaging in trade and using money had never been passed, or even suggested.   (source)
    engaging = being involved
  • Sometimes, too, they talked of engaging in active rebellion against the Party, but with no notion of how to take the first step.   (source)
  • Meanwhile, through the agency of Whymper, Napoleon was engaged in complicated negotiations with Frederick and Pilkington.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • They were engaged in producing something called an Interim Report, but what it was that they were reporting on he had never definitely found out.   (source)
  • Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now engaged in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary.   (source)
  • There was even a whole sub-section — Pornosec, it was called in Newspeak — engaged in producing the lowest kind of pornography, which was sent out in sealed packets and which no Party member, other than those who worked on it, was permitted to look at.   (source)
  • At the Ministry he was employed in some subordinate post for which intelligence was not required, but on the other hand he was a leading figure on the Sports Committee and all the other committees engaged in organizing community hikes, spontaneous demonstrations, savings campaigns, and voluntary activities generally.   (source)
  • And a few cubicles away a mild, ineffectual, dreamy creature named Ampleforth, with very hairy ears and a surprising talent for juggling with rhymes and meters, was engaged in producing garbled versions — definitive texts, they were called — of poems which had become ideologically offensive, but which for one reason or another were to be retained in the anthologies.   (source)
  • Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago, nobody quite remembered), had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared.   (source)
    engaged = been involved
  • It was, indeed, a filthy process in which I was engaged.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • …then returning to her seat to finish a note which she was previously engaged in writing for...   (source)
    engaged = interacted, interested, or attracted
  • The huts, the neater cottages, and stately houses engaged my admiration by turns.   (source)
    engaged = attracted and involved
  • All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable.   (source)
    engaged = occupied (involved)
  • The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit.   (source)
  • One of the girls in yellow was playing the piano, and beside her stood a tall, red-haired young lady from a famous chorus, engaged in song.   (source)
    engaged = involved
  • First mate angry, said it was folly, and to yield to such foolish ideas would demoralise the men, said he would engage to keep them out of trouble with the handspike.   (source)
    engage = work
  • I was engaged after dinner in my study posting up my books, which, through press of other work and the many visits to Lucy, had fallen sadly into arrear.   (source)
    engaged = occupied (involved)
  • I told him he might have a dozen if he wished, but that it would not be wise to have more than one solicitor engaged in one transaction, as only one could act at a time, and that to change would be certain to militate against his interest.   (source)
    engaged = working
  • It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound as Death: it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh.   (source)
    engaged = involved
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  • I would like to engage your services.
    engage = hire
  • It was Saturday and she had an important engagement.   (source)
    engagement = activity
  • Ah, you're cross with me because I've been engaged all week, aren't you?   (source)
    engaged = busy or occupied
  • He has an unexpected engagement.   (source)
    engagement = activity
  • I have hired a vessel and am occupied in collecting my sailors; those whom I have already engaged appear to be men on whom I can depend and are certainly possessed of dauntless courage.   (source)
    engaged = hired
  • I laughed again, and told him that having most of your social engagements occur at a children's hospital also did not encourage promiscuity, and then we talked about Peter Van Houten's amazingly brilliant comment about the sluttiness of time, and even though I was in bed and he was in his basement, it really felt like we were back in that uncreated third space, which was a place I really liked visiting with him.   (source)
    engagements = activities
  • He and Winifred had already engaged what they considered to be a suitable staff for the running of his household — people who knew the ropes, he said.   (source)
    engaged = hired
  • Then one evening she started an engagement at the Quality Inn and found a microphone and sound system all set up.   (source)
    engagement = job
  • Still in wrist manacles, he wandered two miles out of Meridian where he discovered a small animal show and was immediately engaged to wash the camel.   (source)
    engaged = hired
  • Shortly before eight o'clock his son left the dining room to go up to his room and dress for an engagement in the city later that night.   (source)
    engagement = activity
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  • Wishing only to be with her, he canceled every social engagement he could.   (source)
  • We were engaged by letter, through an agency.   (source)
    engaged = hired
  • And we all took the less explicable step of engaging the parlor of a suite in the Plaza Hotel.   (source)
    engaging = occupying
  • When your master, employer, what you will, engaged that someone should come on his behalf, it was understood that my needs only were to be consulted.   (source)
    engaged = arranged
  • For One Night Only, On account of imperative European engagements!   (source)
    engagements = bookings (promises to perform)
  • I heard him as I came upstairs, and the theatre is engaged of course by those indefatigable rehearsers, Agatha and Frederick.   (source)
    engaged = occupied
  • If in the opinion of Mr. Burnham the builder is not employing a sufficient force of men to complete the work on time, Mr. Burnham is authorized to engage men himself and charge the cost to the builder.   (source)
    engage = hire
  • But no matter where her engagements took her, she would always be back home in Statesboro—an hour west of Savannah—to play at the Rotary Club lunch on Monday, the Lions on Tuesday, the Kiwanis on Thursday, and the First Baptist Church on Sunday.   (source)
    engagements = activities
  • During the show's earlier engagement in London, the Indians attacked the coach as it raced across the grounds of Windsor Castle carrying four kings and the prince of Wales.   (source)
    engagement = booking
  • I suppose that our time is out—our engagement ended, and I fear that Burnham is disposed to let us go and depend on Ulrich—for Burnham is not competent to see the incompetency of Ulrich & the need of deliberate thought.   (source)
  • I know not what part of my conduct, in either public or private life, can have authorized a doubt of my fidelity to the public engagements.   (source)
    engagements = activities
  • The first call of the day was on Benjamin Franklin, and from that point on Adams was kept steadily on the move, with sights to see, social engagements, dinners, teas, the theater.   (source)
  • Richard had various engagements during the day.   (source)
  • In the place of Miss Violence, he engaged a man called Mr. Erskine, who'd once taught at a boys' school in England but had been packed off to Canada, suddenly, for his health.   (source)
    engaged = hired
  • Vera explained the circumstances of her secretarial engagement.   (source)
    engagement = hiring
  • You were engaged, as you say, by letter.   (source)
    engaged = hired
  • The letter engaging us?   (source)
    engaging = hiring
  • There was the old party what engaged me a waitin' in the 'ouse at Purfleet.   (source)
    engaged = hired
  • My niece walk to a dinner engagement at this time of the year!   (source)
    engagement = activity
  • I often refused to accompany him, alleging another engagement, that I might remain alone.   (source)
    engagement = task to do
  • He was engaged to dinner already both for that day and the next;   (source)
    engaged = committed
  • He knew not that he had a pre-engaged heart to attack.   (source)
    engaged = occupied
  • The usual plea of increasing engagements was made in excuse for not having written to her earlier;   (source)
    engagements = activities
  • Then the duke he lets the curtain down, and bows to the people, and says the great tragedy will be performed only two nights more, on accounts of pressing London engagements, where the seats is all sold already for it in Drury Lane; and then he makes them another bow, and says if he has succeeded in pleasing them and instructing them, he will be deeply obleeged if they will mention it to their friends and get them to come and see it.   (source)
    engagements = bookings (promises to perform)
  • I have no hesitation in asking you, as I know a certain lady is engaged to a certain dinner party, and that you are free.   (source)
    engaged = committed
  • This circumstance, added to his well-known integrity and dauntless courage, made me very desirous to engage him.   (source)
    engage = hire
  • I shall depart for the latter town in a fortnight or three weeks; and my intention is to hire a ship there, which can easily be done by paying the insurance for the owner, and to engage as many sailors as I think necessary among those who are accustomed to the whale-fishing.   (source)
  • I first became acquainted with him on board a whale vessel; finding that he was unemployed in this city, I easily engaged him to assist in my enterprise.   (source)
    engaged = hired
  • Will not you engage to attend with your eyes steadily fixed on him the whole time—as I shall do—not to lose a word; or only looking off just to note down any sentence preeminently beautiful?   (source)
    engage = arrange
  • I must perform my engagement and let the monster depart with his mate before I allowed myself to enjoy the delight of a union from which I expected peace.   (source)
    engagement = promised job
  • So, if you are not against it, I will write to my poor sister tomorrow, and make the proposal; and, as soon as matters are settled, I will engage to get the child to Mansfield; you shall have no trouble about it.   (source)
    engage = arrange
  • "I wished to engage Miss Crawford for the two first dances," was the explanation that followed, and brought Fanny to life again, enabling her, as she found she was expected to speak, to utter something like an inquiry as to the result.   (source)
    engage = book (get a promise from)
  • To engage her early for the two first dances was all the command of individual happiness which he felt in his power, and the only preparation for the ball which he could enter into, in spite of all that was passing around him on the subject, from morning till night.   (source)
    engage = occupy
  • "I have had the pleasure of seeing your sister dance, Mr. Price," said Henry Crawford, leaning forward, "and will engage to answer every inquiry which you can make on the subject, to your entire satisfaction."   (source)
    engage = promise
  • I have engaged for your seeing him whenever he calls, as you might have done had nothing of this sort occurred.   (source)
    engaged = arranged
  • In a few minutes Sir Thomas came to her, and asked if she were engaged; and the "Yes, sir; to Mr. Crawford," was exactly what he had intended to hear.   (source)
    engaged = reserved or committed (to dance)
  • Sir Thomas, drawing back from intimacies in general, was particularly disinclined, at this time, for any engagements but in one quarter.   (source)
    engagements = activities
  • Wear the necklace, as you are engaged to do, to-morrow evening, and let the chain, which was not ordered with any reference to the ball, be kept for commoner occasions.   (source)
    engaged = committed
  • "Yes," he answered, "she is engaged to me; but" (with a smile that did not sit easy) "she says it is to be the last time that she ever will dance with me."   (source)
    engaged = committed (to dance)
  • Sir Thomas engaged for its giving her very little trouble; and she assured him "that she was not at all afraid of the trouble; indeed, she could not imagine there would be any."   (source)
    engaged = arranged
  • Her father asked him to do them the honour of taking his mutton with them, and Fanny had time for only one thrill of horror, before he declared himself prevented by a prior engagement.   (source)
    engagement = promise to participate in an activity
  • He was going, and, if not voluntarily going, voluntarily intending to stay away; for, excepting what might be due to his uncle, his engagements were all self-imposed.   (source)
    engagements = activities
  • The return of winter engagements, however, was not without its effect; and in the course of their progress, her mind became so pleasantly occupied in superintending the fortunes of her eldest niece, as tolerably to quiet her nerves.   (source)
  • The first regular rehearsal of the three first acts was certainly to take place in the evening: Mrs. Grant and the Crawfords were engaged to return for that purpose as soon as they could after dinner; and every one concerned was looking forward with eagerness.   (source)
    engaged = committed
  • ...we must secure to the child, or consider ourselves engaged to secure to her hereafter, as circumstances may arise, the provision of a gentlewoman, if no such establishment should offer as you are so sanguine in expecting.   (source)
  • ...she was happy in knowing herself admired; and she was happy in having the two dances with Edmund still to look forward to, during the greatest part of the evening, her hand being so eagerly sought after that her indefinite engagement with him was in continual perspective.   (source)
    engagement = commitment
  • Sir Thomas was as joyful as she could desire, and very kind and communicative; and she had so comfortable a talk with him about William as to make her feel as if nothing had occurred to vex her, till she found, towards the close, that Mr. Crawford was engaged to return and dine there that very day.   (source)
    engaged = committed
  • After dancing with each other at a proper number of balls, the young people justified these opinions, and an engagement, with a due reference to the absent Sir Thomas, was entered into, much to the satisfaction of their respective families, and of the general lookers-on of the neighbourhood, who had, for many weeks past, felt the expediency of Mr. Rushworth's marrying Miss Bertram.   (source)
    engagement = activity
  • To anything like a permanence of abode, or limitation of society, Henry Crawford had, unluckily, a great dislike: he could not accommodate his sister in an article of such importance; but he escorted her, with the utmost kindness, into Northamptonshire, and as readily engaged to fetch her away again, at half an hour's notice, whenever she were weary of the place.   (source)
    engaged = occupied himself
  • He had seen her eyes sparkle as she spoke of the dear friend's letter, which claimed a long visit from her in London, and of the kindness of Henry, in engaging to remain where he was till January, that he might convey her thither; he had heard her speak of the pleasure of such a journey with an animation which had "no" in every tone.   (source)
    engaging = promising or working
  • But though my uncle entered into my wishes with all the warmth I could desire, and exerted himself immediately, there were difficulties from the absence of one friend, and the engagements of another, which at last I could no longer bear to stay the end of, and knowing in what good hands I left the cause, I came away on Monday, trusting that many posts would not pass before I should be followed by such very letters as these.   (source)
    engagements = activities
  • …he was going away immediately, being to meet his uncle at Bath without delay; but if there were any prospect of a renewal of Lovers' Vows, he should hold himself positively engaged, he should break through every other claim, he should absolutely condition with his uncle for attending them whenever he might be wanted.   (source)
    engaged = committed
  • Simple as such an engagement might appear in other eyes, it had novelty and importance in hers, for excepting the day at Sotherton, she had scarcely ever dined out before; and though now going only half a mile, and only to three people, still it was dining out, and all the little interests of preparation were enjoyments in themselves.   (source)
    engagement = activity
  • An elegant, moderate-sized house in the centre of family connexions; continual engagements among them; commanding the first society in the neighbourhood; looked up to, perhaps, as leading it even more than those of larger fortune, and turning from the cheerful round of such amusements to nothing worse than a tete-a-tete with the person one feels most agreeable in the world.   (source)
    engagements = activities
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  • They knew each other for three years before they became engaged.
    engaged = in an agreement to marry
  • They were engaged soon after.   (source)
  • Instead I found out about your engagement to somebody else in the newspaper.   (source)
    engagement = agreement to marry
  • "Luis has bragged about the engagement to everyone," said Hortensia.   (source)
  • The flea market was where you sipped green tea with almond kolchas, and learned whose daughter had broken off an engagement and run off with her American boyfriend, ...   (source)
  • People buying jewelry were always happy, and even though Welch was a poor town, Becker's Jewel Box had plenty of customers: older miners buying their wives a mother's pin, a brooch with a birthstone for each of her children; teenage couples shopping for engagement rings, the girl giggling with excitement, the boy acting proud and manly.   (source)
    engagement = related to a promise to marry
  • Yet less than two years after Mrs. Leep left him, Leon surprised everyone by getting engaged to a woman he met at a celebrity pro-am golf tournament.   (source)
    engaged = entered into an agreement to marry
  • In critical ways, she was engaged to a stranger.   (source)
    engaged = in an agreement to marry
  • … the engagement was announced in the newspaper, the wedding gown, the shower …   (source)
    engagement = agreement to marry
  • Red was not for engagement teas.   (source)
    engagement = related to an agreement to marry
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  • We were engaged for two years.   (source)
    engaged = in an agreement to marry
  • I'm not sure what this meant in Jackson at the time—whether they were preparing for an engagement or just passing the time together.   (source)
    engagement = agreement to marry
  • With any luck, by the New Year we will be celebrating the engagement of our beloved Prince Maxon to an enchanting, talented, and intelligent Daughter of Illea!   (source)
  • Mrs. Dawes's opposition to the engagement was rendered moot by the subsequent elopement of Simon and Serena.   (source)
  • He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem.   (source)
    engaged = formally promised to be married
  • We shall host a party to announce the engagement.   (source)
    engagement = agreement to marry
  • Are they husband and wife, are they divorced, engaged, what?   (source)
    engaged = in an agreement to marry
  • Bep's engaged! ... but Bep doesn't love him, and to me that's enough reason to advise her against marrying him.   (source)
  • Burnham immediately went to Margaret's father to break the engagement, on grounds the courtship could not continue in the shadow of scandal.   (source)
    engagement = agreement to marry
  • William Smith's interest in Nabby, and hers in him, had been apparent for months, but only after Nabby had formally broken her engagement to Royall Tyler would Abigail permit any mention of the new "connection."   (source)
  • Was he engaged-married?   (source)
    engaged = in an agreement to marry
  • Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn't even vaguely engaged.   (source)
  • You and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and are going to settle down soon soberly into old married women, can despise vanity.   (source)
  • Advantageous as would be the alliance, and long standing and public as was the engagement, her happiness must not be sacrificed to it.   (source)
    engagement = promise to marry
  • So she wrote him a letter, and now she's engaged.   (source)
    engaged = in an agreement to marry
  • This morning Miep told us about her cousin's engagement party, which she went to on Saturday.   (source)
    engagement = related to a promise to marry
  • There are several factors involved in this engagement.   (source)
    engagement = agreement to marry
  • There went with the house the usual legend about the Yankees: one Finch female, recently engaged, donned her complete trousseau to save it from raiders in the neighborhood; she became stuck in the door to the Daughters' Staircase but was doused with water and finally pushed through.   (source)
    engaged = entered into an agreement to marry
  • The disease rapidly gained ground, but Root remained committed to the engagement, even though it was clear to everyone he was marrying a dead woman.   (source)
    engagement = agreement to marry
  • Kya turned the page to continue the story, and there loomed a large picture of Chase and a girl above an engagement announcement: Andrews-Stone.   (source)
    engagement = related to an agreement to marry
  • You did know I was engaged, right?   (source)
    engaged = in an agreement to marry
  • Darlene had worked as a barmaid in a number of local saloons and was engaged to the owner of a successful club on the southside.   (source)
    engaged = in an agreement to get married
  • I will announce the engagement at once.   (source)
    engagement = agreement to marry
  • But in her twenty-second year, more than a year after Chase and Pearl announced their engagement, she walked the sandy lane, blistering with heat, to the mailbox every day and looked inside.   (source)
  • But when the New York Daily News reported that the couple had become engaged, Dawes's mother—the formidable Theodora Cabot Dawes—telegraphed a haughty one-word comment that was blown up into headlines: SON ENGAGED?   (source)
    engaged = in an agreement to marry
  • They have their own worries, Mr. Kleiman with his health and Bep with her engagement, which isn't looking very promising at the moment.   (source)
    engagement = agreement to marry
  • I'm pretty sure Margot would never kiss a boy unless there was some talk of an engagement or marriage.   (source)
  • Mother's family wasn't as wealthy, but still fairly well-off, and we've listened openmouthed to stories of private balls, dinners and engagement parties with 250 guests.   (source)
    engagement = related to a promise to marry
  • On the other hand, there's Bep's engagement, the Pentecost reception, the flowers, Mr. Kugler's birthday, cakes and stories about cabarets, movies and concerts.   (source)
    engagement = agreement to marry
  • Mother never told us that her family had opposed the engagement but we knew.   (source)
  • Engaged to marry D. Denton Deere (also an heir).   (source)
    engaged = in an agreement to marry
  • She'd been wondering if he would show up today as mysteriously as he had at her engagement party.   (source)
    engagement = related to an agreement to marry
  • When she turned twenty-one, he sent her his pay and asked her to find an engagement ring.   (source)
    engagement = related to a promise to marry
  • Then an engagement period would have followed which would have lasted a few months.   (source)
    engagement = related to an agreement to marry
  • He handed Dodge the soggy newspaper detailing Alyss' upcoming engagement party.   (source)
  • Angela twisted the engagement ring her mother made her wear in spite of the rash.   (source)
  • DAD WAS STILL BEDRIDDEN when Shawn and Emily announced their engagement.   (source)
    engagement = agreement to marry
  • He lost his temper and abruptly said that maybe they should call off the engagement.   (source)
  • First, the engagement announcement of Angela Wexler to D. Denton Deere.   (source)
    engagement = related to an agreement to marry
  • You left your engagement ring on the sink again.   (source)
  • She had returned the engagement ring to Denton Deere; she had not seen him since Crow's wedding.   (source)
  • The week after the engagement had taken place I was packed off to have lunch with Richard's sister, Winifred Griffen Prior.   (source)
    engagement = agreement to marry
  • ACCORDING TO TRADITION, Soraya's family would have thrown the engagement party the Shirini-khori—or "Eating of the Sweets" ceremony.   (source)
    engagement = related to an agreement to marry
  • While saying this, she examined me with interest and a certain chilly amusement, to see how I would take it — this reduction of my engagement ring to a minor errand.   (source)
    engagement = related to a promise to marry
  • I kept my pristine engagement ring folded into my cotton-gloved fist, aware that, worn with clothes like mine, it must look like a rhinestone, or else like something I'd stolen.   (source)
  • BECAUSE SORAYA AND I never had an engagement period, much of what I learned about the Taheris I learned after I married into their family.   (source)
    engagement = related to an agreement to marry
  • What I know about the engagement has come to me in bits and pieces, mostly from the stories Mother told.   (source)
    engagement = agreement to marry
  • Likely, the man at the engagement party had just been a rival of Leopold's and wanted to show him up with his dancing.   (source)
    engagement = related to an agreement to marry
  • The most prominent members of British society were on hand for her engagement party--dukes, duchesses, knights, earls, counts, viscounts, and country squires-and all of them hid their faces behind masks, as did Alice.   (source)
  • Westing connection: Engaged to Angela Wexler (see Wexlers), who looks like Sam Westing's daughter, Violet, who was also engaged to be married, but to a politician, not an intern.   (source)
    engaged = in an agreement to marry
  • "Angela, where's your engagement ring?"   (source)
    engagement = related to an agreement to marry
  • We heard you were engaged to a girl out West.   (source)
    engaged = in an agreement to marry
  • We met some time ago a man that would just do for you, if you were not already engaged to Jonathan.   (source)
  • When I had finished she told me without comment that she was engaged to another man.   (source)
  • All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.   (source)
    engaged = committed to marry
  • An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged.   (source)
  • She had a debut after the Armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans.   (source)
    engaged = in an agreement to marry
  • We heard that you were engaged.   (source)
  • And besides, Miss Bertram is engaged.   (source)
  • "If Miss Bertram were not engaged," said Fanny cautiously, "I could sometimes almost think that he admired her more than Julia."   (source)
  • A woman married only six months ago; a man professing himself devoted, even engaged to another; that other her near relation; the whole family, both families connected as they were by tie upon tie; all friends, all intimate together!   (source)
  • He was released from the engagement to be mortified and unhappy, till some other pretty girl could attract him into matrimony again, and...   (source)
    engagement = promise to marry
  • Miss Bertram's engagement made him in equity the property of Julia, of which Julia was fully aware; and before he had been at Mansfield a week, she was quite ready to be fallen in love with.   (source)
  • She thanked him for his great attention, his paternal kindness, but he was quite mistaken in supposing she had the smallest desire of breaking through her engagement, or was sensible of any change of opinion or inclination since her forming it.   (source)
  • Julia did seem inclined to admit that Maria's situation might require particular caution and delicacy—but that could not extend to her—she was at liberty; and Maria evidently considered her engagement as only raising her so much more above restraint, and leaving her less occasion than Julia to consult either father or mother.   (source)
  • The two cousins walked home together; and, except in the immediate discussion of this engagement, which Edmund spoke of with the warmest satisfaction, as so particularly desirable for her in the intimacy which he saw with so much pleasure established, it was a silent walk; for having finished that subject, he grew thoughtful and indisposed for any other.   (source)
  • Maria, with only Mr. Rushworth to attend to her, and doomed to the repeated details of his day's sport, good or bad, his boast of his dogs, his jealousy of his neighbours, his doubts of their qualifications, and his zeal after poachers, subjects which will not find their way to female feelings without some talent on one side or some attachment on the other, had missed Mr. Crawford grievously; and Julia, unengaged and unemployed, felt all the right of missing him much more.   (source)
    unengaged = not in an agreement to marry
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unengaged means not and reverses the meaning of engaged. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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  • We will engage the enemy when they reach the river.
    engage = begin fighting
  • Both had recommended reforms to the rules of engagement, particularly concerning the use of deadly force.   (source)
    engagement = battle
  • He'd seen a distant Zero at Wake, but had never been engaged by one.   (source)
    engaged = attacked
  • She could have turned and fled, but her mind was geared toward engagement, and by the time Edgar rolled onto his side, she towered over him.   (source)
    engagement = battle
  • He decides to walk in the opposite direction from them, reasoning that the Russians are probably heading to engage with the Germans, so getting as far away as possible makes sense.   (source)
    engage = begin fighting
  • It was this man that Okonkwo threw in a fight which the old men agreed was one of the fiercest since the founder of their town engaged a spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights.   (source)
    engaged = fought
  • If he crosses paths with Redd, he'll try to engage with her.   (source)
    engage = begin fighting
  • An AC-130 gunship thousands of feet overhead engaged the enemy that could be positively identified by their weapon fire.   (source)
    engaged = attacked
  • … he thought it his duty, therefore, to avoid fighting, especially with an unequal force, if he could, but if he could not avoid an engagement, he would give them something that should make them remember him.   (source)
    engagement = battle
  • Thus in the end we may find him in his form of man between the hours of noon and sunset, and so engage with him when he is at his most weak.   (source)
    engage = begin fighting
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  • With such means in his power he had a right to be listened to; and though Mrs. Norris could fidget about the room, and disturb everybody in quest of two needlefuls of thread or a second-hand shirt button, in the midst of her nephew's account of a shipwreck or an engagement, everybody else was attentive;   (source)
    engagement = battle
  • Measured by the numbers of troops involved, these were small engagements, but the effect on American spirits could hardly have been greater, and just when all seemed lost.   (source)
    engagements = battles
  • But without being able to positively identify whether they were women, children, or armed males, "our air assets could not engage them," says Matt Mason.   (source)
    engage = attack
  • Attention shifted to naval engagements between the French and British in the West Indies and to British forays into the South, where, in the spring of 1779, the Americans were defeated at Briar Creek, Georgia.   (source)
    engagements = battles
  • No one else but members of Adam's team had the skill, fortitude, or audacity to infiltrate this area undetected and engage the enemy in their own backyard.   (source)
    engage = fight
  • By the second week of March, as Adams was preparing to leave for Quincy, word reached Philadelphia that the American frigate Constellation, under Captain Thomas Truxtun, had captured the French frigate L'Insurgent, after a battle near the island of Nevis in the Leewards, the first major engagement of the undeclared war at sea.   (source)
    engagement = battle
  • They're taught to enter the room exactly as we say, clear their lanes as we've instructed, and if there's a target they engage it or they handle it if it's a noncombatant.   (source)
    engage = attack
  • Considering the location and the fact that Adam was a Naval Special Warfare sniper who had consistently hit targets a mile away, should an opportunity arise, say, across the river, he could engage the target from a lofty crag, camouflaged within the dark shadow of a rock overhang.   (source)
  • There's one or two guys looking to see if you went down the wall far enough, there's a guy looking at your finger—when it's on the trigger, when it's off—a guy's watching your fields of fire, someone else is watching your eyes, or in Adam's case, eye, assuring that the scenario is being processed, another guy's got a stopwatch, and you've got seconds, split seconds, to engage the right targets.   (source)
  • It all happened real fast; this guy was firing at us, we engaged, there was motion to the right, and Adam spun around but didn't fire.   (source)
    engaged = attacked
  • An AC-130 gunship engaged the enemy position, but the fighters were well entrenched in the structure and close air support had little effect.   (source)
  • I thank those who have selflessly pulled themselves off the line to train the next warriors to go forward—so that they may surpass the prowess of those currently engaged.   (source)
    engaged = fighting
  • On one particular assault, "we'd dropped two guys that were directly engaging us, and there was a third guy winging bullets in our general direction," Heath says.   (source)
    engaging = attacking
  • Special Warfare Operator First Class (Sea, Air, and Land) Brown maneuvered under intense enemy fire with his assault team and engaged the insurgents at close range with accurate small arms fire and grenades.   (source)
    engaged = attacked
  • ...and the posthumously presented Silver Star for Chief Brown's actions as part of an assault force that executed a daring raid deep into mountainous enemy-occupied terrain in northeastern Afghanistan… while numerous enemy fighters simultaneously engaged the force from the surrounding mountains….   (source)
  • They were the self-proclaimed saviors of the queendom; they should have been engaging Redd in battle, not talking about it.   (source)
    engaging = fighting
  • No Japanese planes or guns engaged him.   (source)
    engaged = attacked
  • Without concern for his own well-being, and with sword glinting, he slashed his way through Redd's soldiers, who looked like ordinary playing cards (albeit larger) when unengaged, but who now fanned out as if the hand of a giant poker player was spreading them across the green baize of a gaming table.   (source)
    unengaged = not fighting
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unengaged means not and reverses this meaning of engaged. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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  • I pulled the lever to engage the gears.
    engage = put to work
  • The float rose in the sump pit twice an hour and the lights flickered as the motor engaged.   (source)
    engaged = began working
  • Finally, it stopped, and the machine engaged.   (source)
  • The engineer in the pit released the brake and engaged the drive gears.   (source)
    engaged = moved into position to work
  • The freezer compressor ticked and engaged and murmured a low electric throb; the blower sighed warm air across his stockinged foot as he passed the register.   (source)
    engaged = began working
  • There, resting on a mound of blanket rolls, is a silver sheath of arrows and a bow, already strung, just waiting to be engaged.   (source)
    engaged = put to work
  • New gears engaged, and the claw transported the box to the far side of the vault, coming to a stop over a stationary conveyor belt.   (source)
    engaged = moved into position to work
  • "What's your name?" he said, coming over and disengaging the rabbit from the snare.   (source)
    disengaging = removing
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disengaging means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of engaging as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • Atticus disengaged himself and looked at me.   (source)
    disengaged = untangled from his previous position
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disengaged means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of engaged as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • Andy's encounter with the falling rock was very much on my mind every time I unclipped from the line to move around somebody even a small projectile would be enough to send me to the bottom of the face if it struck while I was disengaged from the rope.   (source)
    disengaged = not connected
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  • Red in the face, he tried to disengage himself from her embrace.   (source)
    disengage = separate
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disengage means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of engage as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • She made no response whatever to the clasp of his arm; she did not even try to disengage herself.   (source)
  • Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm.   (source)
    disengaged = untangled
  • Horror, horror, horror … he tried to disengage himself; but Lenina tightened her embrace.   (source)
    disengage = separate
  • He started forward to take her in his arms, but she disengaged herself rather hurriedly, partly because she was still holding the tool-bag.   (source)
    disengaged = separated
  • I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement.   (source)
    disengagement = the act of move something out of an interacting position
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disengagement means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of engagement as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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  • Engagement off.†   (source)
  • My attention had never been so completely engaged.†   (source)
  • But there was no similar expertise for dealing with cyberweapons, and no rules of engagement had been clearly expressed.†   (source)
  • What sort of rules of engagement?†   (source)
  • Unfashionable as it might be to suggest it, I felt that we were engaged in a spiritual battle.†   (source)
  • Chuck looked ahead at the engaged battle.†   (source)
  • For some in my chalk, this was the first genuine, military activity they would engage in.†   (source)
  • "Li-li-light speed engaged, Captain," Max reported.†   (source)
  • I felt I was dealing fate a serious blow by engaging such a handsome adversary.†   (source)
  • Engage the enemy!†   (source)
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  • But wasn't she engaged to Roger Garthing?†   (source)
  • The spirits of those who had perished at the pier were all around, engaged with one another, eating and drinking and talking.†   (source)
  • More engaged.†   (source)
  • We might've had an engagement.†   (source)
  • I saw two young men engaged in an argument.†   (source)
  • Babi said they would hold birthday parties at the restaurant, engagement ceremonies, New Year's get-togethers.†   (source)
  • Angry with them for letting me engage in a facade.†   (source)
  • Number Two, engage the Receiver.†   (source)
  • At the time I was engaged to somebody else, and in no position to fall in love.†   (source)
  • Fanny Peatrow got engaged.†   (source)
  • Instead, Hammond behaved as if they were engaged in a purely social outing.†   (source)
  • Can we expect any news of an engagement in the near future?†   (source)
  • As we walked, he engaged us in conversation.†   (source)
  • I cannot think that they played any role at all in the four-year "engagement."†   (source)
  • I was to stimulate her with questions, engage her with stories, read to her, go to museums, puppet shows, galleries.†   (source)
  • It spun loosely 360 degrees, not engaging.†   (source)
  • The encoded numbers are followed by announcements, births and baptisms and engagements and deaths.†   (source)
  • Johansen"; or, in the old days, during the merriment and excitement of his engagement to Lise, it had been, occasionally, "Mama."†   (source)
  • Engage or wait?†   (source)
  • I can be engaged by the arc of the water in a sprinkler system.†   (source)
  • It was a signal for a new stage, a new level of engagement.†   (source)
  • Instead it had been indiscriminately promiscuous, had not pair-bonded, and had spent most of its waking life, when it wasn't eating, engaged in copulation.†   (source)
  • Across the top of the flyer writ in big black letters were the words LIMITED ENGAGEMENT, then in little letters it said, —Direct from an S.R.O. engagement in New York City.†   (source)
  • You mean engaged to a stranger?†   (source)
  • And he engaged her in conversation.†   (source)
  • Lacking any pressing engagements, I picked up the clay soldier and walked over.†   (source)
  • Gerald and Lydia, busy with their own engagements, keep out of the way.†   (source)
  • They sealed their engagement with a gentle kiss on the lips.†   (source)
  • His work was complex: it engaged his mind and imagination.†   (source)
  • "But the day after their engagement, she's diagnosed with leukemia."†   (source)
  • Jonesy and DeNice were engaged.†   (source)
  • Which is ironic since we're officially engaged now.†   (source)
  • I speak, of course, of the alliance discussions my mistress has been engaged in with Emperor Rikan.†   (source)
  • All through it were rolling hills that gave me a chance to practice engaging the clutch and working the emergency brake.†   (source)
  • Now that she was engaged.†   (source)
  • And feeling challenged and engaged, the ability to do something more with my life.†   (source)
  • Troy and bono enter the yard, engaged in conversation.†   (source)
  • … You do not engage the attention of the reader unless your story has basic human interest elements.†   (source)
  • Arthur's companion seemed sunk in his own thoughts, and when Arthur tried on a couple of occasions to engage him in conversation again he would simply reply by asking if he was comfortable enough, and then left it at that.†   (source)
  • As they walked the corridor, Ender noticed several older boys seemingly engaged in conversations in branching corridors and ladderways; some were in their corridor, walking slowly in the other direction.†   (source)
  • It's just really hard to focus on the here and now and be engaged in conversation when that's the only thing on my mind.†   (source)
  • Engaging socially.†   (source)
  • I'm engaging in hyperbole.†   (source)
  • Groups of regulators—both volunteer citizens and the actual regulators employed by the government—patrol the streets every night, looking for uncureds breaking curfew, checking the streets and (if the curtains are open) houses for unapproved activity, like two uncureds touching each other, or walking together after dark—or even two cureds engaging in "activity that might signal the re-emergence of the deliria after the procedure," like too much hugging and kissing.†   (source)
  • Men engage in a peaceful, intellectual pastime, and along comes a beautiful woman and spoils everything.†   (source)
  • He decides not to engage.†   (source)
  • The human was trying to engage a troll in macho repartee!†   (source)
  • Outside the church after dinner, many migrants engage in a crude kind of street therapy: Who has endured the worst riding the trains?†   (source)
  • The motor engaged.†   (source)
  • We asked them what movies they'd seen and how they'd done on their exams and when they were getting married (most of them had sadly small engagement rings).†   (source)
  • OVERHEAD, THE HELICOPTER WAS ENGAGED IN ITS roaring flutter.†   (source)
  • The ones on Eragon's shore were similarly engaged.†   (source)
  • Hell, I had to conserve ammo for future engagements.†   (source)
  • But when she tried to engage him in conversation he seemed uninterested, taking my hand and backing away, his gestures saying, "Thanks, but no thanks."†   (source)
  • Rachel is hysterical and engaged.†   (source)
  • During their phone meeting, Ruth reviewed the chapter that presented the Five Don'ts and Ten Do's of becoming a more engaged parent.†   (source)
  • Most of the engagements are at least three AU away.†   (source)
  • Engaging with the material in any deeper way seemed impossible.†   (source)
  • And they don't have rules of engagement.†   (source)
  • No return engagements.†   (source)
  • So engage that other creative intelligence.†   (source)
  • Now Alistair was sitting upright, as if ready to engage again.†   (source)
  • My feet engage the pedals and I pump away.†   (source)
  • They were too loud, had too much power for the little house chores he was engaged in--resetting table legs; glazing.†   (source)
  • This noon they became engaged!†   (source)
  • The crowd across from us was likewise engaged in searching the skies.†   (source)
  • I'll put it this way-we're officially engaged.†   (source)
  • Some supervisors become meatpacking Casanovas, engaging in multiple affairs.†   (source)
  • After she reads my chart and talks to the nurses, she goes back downstairs to my family, who have stopped talking in hushed tones and are now all engaged in solitary activities.†   (source)
  • "And is it true," Elaine Murphy continued, "that you were part of a Special Forces unit engaged in top secret duty?†   (source)
  • I'll warrant, he hasn't missed a single party since I've been gone, hasn't turned down a single social engagement!"†   (source)
  • We engaged in an earnest and prolonged handshake.†   (source)
  • The army of demons had engaged a new enemy in battle.†   (source)
  • Dee pushed the door, but the electric locks had engaged.†   (source)
  • She glanced over at Simon, who appeared to have succeeded in engaging Isabelle in conversation.†   (source)
  • Very engaging, sir.†   (source)
  • I was still fully engaged.†   (source)
  • We could hear their voices falling away behind us, engaged in violent argument.†   (source)
  • "Speaking of time," said Jesus, turning and pointing at the path that led into the forest at the end of the clearing, "you have an engagement.†   (source)
  • I am not accusing you of engaging in boyish fancy.†   (source)
  • "I had another engagement," he says.†   (source)
  • Now we are engaged in a great civil war….†   (source)
  • In any case, the details of the engagement were settled in their letters during the weeks that followed.†   (source)
  • I've engaged servants.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus listens with deep engagement.†   (source)
  • Pastor Butcher was a short, bald, lively preacher—energetic and engaging, not dull and dry the way kids sometimes expect an older pastor to be.†   (source)
  • Two teenagers engaged in a snowball-throwing contest from the dock at Port Jefferson Harbor.†   (source)
  • All because of a broken engagement?†   (source)
  • It occurred to me that Joan, hearing where I was, had engaged a room at the asylum on pretense, simply as a joke.†   (source)
  • I was to attend my first engagement as a novice geisha.†   (source)
  • You were engaged?†   (source)
  • How he went after Minerva while he was still engaged.†   (source)
  • They also engaged the best seamstresses to make the floating graduating dresses and to cut down secondhand pants which would be pressed to a military slickness for the important event.†   (source)
  • This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.†   (source)
  • Farmer had some friends in "tb"—it was an old friend who had arranged this speaking engagement.†   (source)
  • "Wasn't my nephew Jem," he said slowly, "engaged to marry his great-uncle's son's wife's second cousin?"†   (source)
  • Blomkvist spent an hour trying to engage him in conversation.†   (source)
  • " "Maybe she's engaged to that boy.†   (source)
  • It simply spins without engaging.†   (source)
  • Then they engaged again.†   (source)
  • I have no intention of engaging in theological debate.†   (source)
  • Moody engaged Hormoz in a discussion of one of his favorite subjects the duplicity of the American government.†   (source)
  • He made a note in his engagement book, then took out his billfold, picked up the check and gave a ten-dollar bill to the waiter.†   (source)
  • Next some etchings from the Bizarie by Giovan-batista Bracelli, depicting a set of curious toys, humanlike robots engaged in various alchemical rites.†   (source)
  • We were constantly engaged in political debates.†   (source)
  • "Marlena's no pushover, plus she was practically engaged at the time.†   (source)
  • Hook engaged, the chain jerks you forward.†   (source)
  • Do not engage.†   (source)
  • Like, say, tell our folks, 'Mom, Judy and me got engaged today.'†   (source)
  • After lunch, she removed her diamond engagement ring and her wedding band and locked them in her desk drawer.†   (source)
  • "Many African immigrants are engaging in illicit activities such as drug dealing," the story read.†   (source)
  • Not married, not engaged, and with no attachments that she could ascertain.†   (source)
  • But he did not engage the jackdaws and Hazel saw him pick up another carrot and start back with it.†   (source)
  • If she joined the Dark Daughters she's engaging the enemy full on," Damien said.†   (source)
  • Engagement?†   (source)
  • I've got an engagement for the first dance with Miss Consadine myself.†   (source)
  • Gustavo and I were never engaged.†   (source)
  • His best chance of doing so is to engage the public's emotions, for emotion is the enemy of rational argument.†   (source)
  • Like many other Chicagoans, especially those with strong economic interests in the city, White would steadfastly refuse to believe that a significant number of people had panicked, rioted, or engaged in any sort of criminal acts.†   (source)
  • Engagements were rare around the Camp.†   (source)
  • Engage caterpillar.†   (source)
  • I was never even engaged.†   (source)
  • 3 million people engaged in forced labor of all kinds, not just sexual servitude.†   (source)
  • A ro-mance began, and Alfred and Manuela were soon engaged.†   (source)
  • In a war zone, the QRF's rules of engagement were ludicrous.†   (source)
  • Is he …. engaged to anyone?†   (source)
  • He looked engaged.†   (source)
  • No. He is engaged to someone else," my dia said.†   (source)
  • Syed was engaged to a woman his mother had chosen for him in Karachi.†   (source)
  • He proposed to Betty and they were engaged on December 3.†   (source)
  • Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.†   (source)
  • We are secretly engaged.†   (source)
  • I engaged in the lowest perversions with China's enemies!†   (source)
  • "Can you at least tell everyone your name?" she finally asks, obviously not one to engage in a battle of wills.†   (source)
  • Engaged to her?†   (source)
  • The first engagement had gone badly.†   (source)
  • "I have an engagement at One Market at six-fifteen," the agent replied curtly.†   (source)
  • His eyes moved gently to engage mine.†   (source)
  • Jean often invited her into town or asked her to accompany him on his numerous social engagements.†   (source)
  • Then you can have a father in the state legislature and a sister who's engaged to a champion skier.†   (source)
  • Of course, you may have already engaged Madame Gao.†   (source)
  • I thought you had another engagement tonight.†   (source)
  • Like he's preparing to engage an opponent.†   (source)
  • Ellie and Arthur had married, and Mr. Pernick shyly confided, "I'm pleased to say I'm engaged, Miss Pritchard, to a charming woman who is particularly knowledgeable about the migrating habits of the Motacilla trochilus."†   (source)
  • Ignatius considered engaging her in conversation, toying with her until the moment of her demise, but there was no time.†   (source)
  • Jake Gaither was engaged to Tiffany.†   (source)
  • His mistress, who had a flexible schedule, accompanied him on all speaking engagements, real and imagined.†   (source)
  • That was just one of my stupid, speak-aloud, brain-not-engaged moments.†   (source)
  • I'm not in the habit of making engagements in the middle of the night.†   (source)
  • Then let him engage Tanis.†   (source)
  • Only the Dean's threat of immediate expulsion prevented me from engaging in a fistfight that day.†   (source)
  • Jake was in no mood for small talk, not that anyone tried to engage him.†   (source)
  • Cesar warned them that the president was a very busy man and would not likely spend much time with them or engage them in any conversation.†   (source)
  • The intellectual and ideological struggle in which my mother and I are engaged has at times been painful.†   (source)
  • "We'll be late to our next engagement."†   (source)
  • I considered myself beyond the stage of street-fighting, and one of the worst things I could do upon returning to the community was to engage in a brawl.†   (source)
  • Trenton was a "skirmish," an "engagement," not a battle.†   (source)
  • Sort of engaged though.†   (source)
  • I like to go to sleep listening to them, unless it is Saturday night, when their fiddling is often interrupted by young men in leather chaps and no shirts engaged in a slap fight.†   (source)
  • But if he does come out that door, I want you to engage him in conversation, can you do that?†   (source)
  • My father engaged the best physician, and so my life was saved.†   (source)
  • Patsy and I became "engaged" at a local Mexican restaurant.†   (source)
  • His projects conduct electricity, engage motion with toothed wheels, react in concert with universal laws of physics.†   (source)
  • "The woman he's engaged to marry, stupid.†   (source)
  • "If he is naked with his hands up, you're not going to engage him," he told us.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later the messenger returned, gave the old man a grunt, and--cautiously, feeling ahead of himself with his crooked bare toes like a man engaged in some strange, pious dance, the foolish smile still fixed on his face--the blind old man went in.†   (source)
  • She was sitting, contentedly engaged in this particular activity, when a slow dark movement along the baseboard caught her eye.†   (source)
  • Somehow she brought her parents round to the idea, and the engagement was formally recognized.†   (source)
  • The guy she cared enough about to follow there ended up getting engaged to someone else.†   (source)
  • What the Taoiseach and I seek is a new dimension to our relationships -- a real partnership between governments and peoples, which will engage our societies at every level.†   (source)
  • "In admissions," Nigel interjected, engaging Mr. McDaniels in a friendly handshake.†   (source)
  • A lot of good players that I played against unfortunately engaged in stuff like this.†   (source)
  • 'He's engaged to a very rich girl,' said Billy's mother.†   (source)
  • The vice president insisted upon this act of integration when accepting the speaking engagement.†   (source)
  • We broke up many engagements.†   (source)
  • At fifteen, Granny and Grampa engaged her to Tuelo Malunga, a boy from the neighboring cattle post; but Mama was scared of him, and ran off with Papa instead.†   (source)
  • The war between the two camps has blazed up with particular belligerence in our times, as language issues engaged social conservatives and liberals and became a factor in the so-called culture wars.†   (source)
  • Your twin-brother up there engages my thoughts.†   (source)
  • But at the moment Ugluk was not engaged in sport.†   (source)
  • When he's engaged?†   (source)
  • "We're celebrating our engagement today."†   (source)
  • But all along the ranks the companies engaged in secret interior dialogues.†   (source)
  • I am not sure how long he had known my mother before the engagement.†   (source)
  • They were acting peacefully and, the courts have decided, were not in any way engaging in piracy.†   (source)
  • Each of us engaged our own kind, more or less.†   (source)
  • It was pretty embarrassing to need Mom's help in fending off my little brother (and I seriously doubt that I'll be engaging in any more tangles like that with him real soon).†   (source)
  • The shift engaged would eat before they slept.†   (source)
  • "We are still engaged in the same holy cause," he wrote on the third anniversary of his enlistment, "we have yet the same Country to fight for."†   (source)
  • Shortly afterward she went to Boston where she filled two speaking engagements, one at a meeting of the New England Antislavery Society on May 2 7th, the other at a women's suffrage meeting on the 1st of June.†   (source)
  • The other men did their best to engage him.†   (source)
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