engage

How To Use engage In A Sentence

• Rules exist to be violated, so that the ‘bastard’ may be more violently characterized and the audience engaged in revengeful fury.
• He is engaged in a bitter struggle with his rival to get control of the company.
• “And now, Sir John de Walton,” he said, “methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.” Castle Dangerous
• We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
• This enables more active forms of mobilization, with many memberships engaged in various forms of collective action, often for the first times in their history.
• The services of the laboratory are offered gratuitously to any scientist or graduate student engaged in research which makes a significant contribution to progress in the fields of science.
• It engages in iron ore mining, pellet production, manganese ore mining and ferroalloy production, as well as in the production of nonferrous minerals, such as kaolin, potash, copper and gold. Five BRIC Strength Stocks
• The plaintiff had sued one member, Hunter, of a committee of the management of a hospital which had engaged him.
• He engaged in endless litigation against the media.
• They don't really need the conversational crutch of football, but they engage to connect with their colleagues. Times, Sunday Times