How to Use engross in a Sentence

engross

verb
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  • For three straight days and nights, Sloss had commandeered his son’s toy, engrossed in the creation of a peculiar gadget that was cylindrical and rotating.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2024
  • The horserace of foreign interference operations—which country is favoring whom and by how much—can be engrossing, even distracting.
    — Laura Rosenberger, Foreign Affairs, 26 Oct. 2020
  • And the drama will so engross people that the facts fall by the wayside.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
  • The motion of the lions and the birds emphasizes the stillness of the figure engrossed in a book.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • The teamwork of Miller and Liu kept the crime drama engrossing.
    — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 26 July 2019
  • From the get-go, Kourtney spent much of the trip to Santa Barbara engrossed in her phone.
    — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Mullins, who is engrossed in a 5-for-52 slump, drove in Santander on a weak groundout.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2024
  • Put Your Phone Away Don't spend your weekend engrossed in your phone.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2023
  • On the sideline late in the game there was a three-inch frozen gob of snot sticking out of the nose of Landry, who was too engrossed in the game to notice.
    — Tim Dahlberg, The Seattle Times, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Duff wrote alongside a photo of Banks engrossed in her gift.
    — Taiwo Balogun, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Has anywhere since so engrossed you in its ocean of details?
    — Benjamin Taylor, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • The Senate voted to engross the bills ahead of debate Tuesday, which blocked changes to the measures.
    — Nyamekye Daniel, Washington Examiner, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Unlike so much of the world, China is not engrossed in soccer.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Mom might have been engrossed in her book, but Nana was persistent.
    — Alison Fields, Longreads, 25 July 2019
  • As stage lights streamed through the foggy air, fans could see the passion of the band, as the musicians engrossed themselves in each song.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2019
  • My older kids, who would have noticed, were already on the field, engrossed in the soccer game.
    — The Mighty, Redbook, 10 July 2015
  • The boys quickly became engrossed in the 2001 book about Myers’s childhood in New York’s Harlem.
    — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2018
  • At each stop, Sasha sat on the ground and opened her notebook to draw, engrossed and uncomplaining.
    — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Those who worked out at the gym this week seemed to be engrossed in a complicated moral arithmetic.
    — Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Became engrossed in brain twisters most of which were submitted by Doc.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018
  • And for the inevitable spills when we were engrossed in conversation.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The writing is very direct but still managed to capture my emotions and keep me engrossed in the story.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 31 May 2018
  • Chadwick Boseman and Donald Glover were engrossed in deep conversation in the back of the room.
    — Josh Duboff, Vanities, 8 May 2018
  • The writing and voice acting are movie-quality good, and the story’s tragic arc is engrossing to the end.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2018
  • In the clip, Madonna, engrossed in her cellphone, lies on a mat and completes a series of stretches as music plays in the background.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • More artist than man, Bowie lived his life engrossed in his own creativity.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 9 Jan. 2017
  • Taka says that one second Yuudai was in tears over Ami’s shade, and the next he was totally engrossed in a video game on his phone.
    — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 29 May 2018
  • There is also the legal matters in which Moore is fully engrossed.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The average worker will spend six hours engrossed in the games throughout the tournament.
    — Christina Austin, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Spectators gathered around the screens, engrossed by the action.
    — Dev Hardikar, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2023

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