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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "engaged" in a sentence

    engaged example sentences

    engaged


    1. Continuers prefer to continue with the occupations that kept them engaged in earlier life


    2. ’ He said sadly, ‘What’s worse; she’s started going on about us getting engaged


    3. Rose relates a horrifying tale about the bombs which were dropped … some of her family were killed in Bristol in an air raid aimed at one of the factories … and she was also anxious about Wally as they were engaged by then


    4. ‘Yes, and on top of that, she was engaged to the local GP


    5. The front doors of the van banged shut and I heard the gears whine as the driver engaged first


    6. Artificially inflating demand was not considered an acceptable business practice in this culture, and people did not patronize merchants who engaged in 'push' advertising


    7. He wondered at first what she meant, then knew it was because he hadn't engaged in sex with her


    8. Dorin and her husband, Ayle, make a great fuss of Gilla, exclaiming with joy when they hear she is engaged to Caderl


    9. By trade the father was a labourer, although through a combination of ill luck and regular run ins with the genie of the bottle, he rarely engaged in his professional calling


    10. She even took up golf to while away the hours when her husband was otherwise engaged with lines, reels and lures

    11. I rang your office but the line was engaged so I thought I’d come down here on the off chance


    12. Fragrance is what the heart needs to remain young and the sundry, intermittent associations that Tom engaged in were based on the satisfying of dull need rather than on the delicate perfume of hope and future expectations


    13. Death certificates were signed and lodged with the appropriate authorities, funeral arrangements planned and paid for, paperwork sorted and solicitors engaged to deal with the minutiae of closing down a life


    14. The Hold Stables housed about thirty of the beautiful Hausa, and while Duncan and Tarak engaged in conversation with the stable master, Rayne went to each offering the tubers from their feedbags


    15. Suddenly it burst open as Warriors and Scathers plowed thru the door engaged in a pitched battle


    16. Elmore engaged in enough magic to have a big shot of a fine bourbon appear on the bar in front of him


    17. I don’t know if you’re aware of his history at all, but he was engaged, oh, it must be about ten years ago now, and she was killed in a car accident


    18. She said something about the war we're engaged in as being a war between two different substrates, and they are on a different substrate


    19. bottle, he rarely engaged in his professional calling


    20. husband was otherwise engaged with lines, reels and lures

    21. young and the sundry, intermittent associations that Tom engaged


    22. As soon as they were clear of Earth’s Moon, Ship engaged the hyper-drive; the


    23. They rolled to their sides but remained engaged


    24. Meanwhile he had also observed the curious antics in which Harry engaged during each episode following his great-niece's directions for his accomplishing the otherwise unremarkable chores around the house


    25. At the designated dining hour, Harry dressed nicely and announced to the assembled guests, “If you wish, I shall be most pleased to escort you to your evening's suppers; those of you not otherwise engaged may follow me


    26. This time it was Belle who interrupted, “Forgive me but, this is a matter of 'tradition'? That's what this comes down to? Tradition? Perhaps you have failed to fully appreciate the uniqueness of the situation we are at present engaged


    27. tugged on the levers which engaged the pump itself


    28. Tom was not engaged in the conversations,


    29. Once he had settled for himself their relative personal tastes and positions in society and industry, he listened more attentively to the banter with which the three men were engaged


    30. The others watched as Kaitlyn went to her father's side and engaged him in a silent meeting

    31. While the gentlemen were engaged in acquiring rail tickets, Harry and the Spelman ladies enjoyed a light brunch


    32. Nigel and I looked at a house down here when we were engaged


    33. Harry was nonplussed and his superiors were otherwise too engaged to notice his brief absence


    34. They sent me an additional questionnaire asking all sorts of personal questions – like how often we write? how often we phone?, do you speak English?, what do my parents think of the idea?, when we got engaged?, and would I be willing to live in Hong Kong? I answered all the questions without telling them it was none of their damn business and I resented our privacy being invaded


    35. He wandered around down here and engaged the cooks and potters around this atrium in some conversation about the residents of Kadak's service house


    36. What she was able to learn; both from what Tetloan told her as well as from what he obviously and purposely omitted, was that while Whimly, the travelers and her had been engaged with the demons, Tetloan had been hiding within the forest, watching in safety as the humans were massacred


    37. engaged the services of the young shepherd – who knew


    38. Neither party said a single word, but Adros didn’t doubt they were engaged in a furious telepathic conversation


    39. As during their whole lives they are engaged in plans and projects, they have frequently more acuteness of understanding than the greater part of country gentlemen


    40. friend thought I should stay and keep you engaged till she comes

    41. engaged for some safe seconds


    42. of those who are engaged in activities less


    43. She had freely chosen to follow the more traditional path of her gender by hooking up with a steady boyfriend from her high school days, getting formally engaged and then married to Joe shortly after graduating, their buying a house and car and all the stuff you’re supposed to take possession of when you form a conjugal union, and her bearing three children before she reached the age of thirty


    44. engaged in fierce polemic


    45. A merchant, in the same manner, who is engaged in the foreign trade of consumption, when he collects goods for foreign markets, will always be glad, upon equal or nearly equal profits, to sell as great a part of them at home as he can


    46. Intemperate, he hadn’t engaged mercenaries in the city


    47. You can live a life that is fully engaged with the world, and you can have desires, but you are not addicted to that which you desire


    48. Anytime you are engaged in an activity in which you are fully present, your self-conscious self may recede into the background


    49. The loss of the Portugal trade would, no doubt, have occasioned a considerable embarrassment to the merchants at that time engaged in it, who might not, perhaps, have found out, for a year or two, any other equally advantageous method of employing their capitals; and in this would probably have consisted all the inconveniency which England could have suffered from this notable piece of commercial policy


    50. He could see his heart pumping and his lungs engaged in their steady work














































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    Synonyms for "engaged"

    engaged occupied intermeshed meshed busy in use booked set-aside working matched contracted intended promised betrothed pledged performing pursuing

    "engaged" definitions

    having ones attention or mind or energy engaged


    involved in military hostilities


    reserved in advance


    (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)


    (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting


    having services contracted for


    built against or attached to a wall