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US
/ɛnˈɡeɪdʒɪŋ/
]
[ UK /ɛnɡˈeɪdʒɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɛnɡˈeɪdʒɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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attracting or delighting
a piquant face with large appealing eyes
an engaging frankness
How To Use engaging In A Sentence
- That sense of aliveness isn't there when you read the text, and seeing the performance will be much more engaging.
- He was not going to conduct his presidency through interest groups, by balancing one constituency against another and engaging in the customary horse-trading on the Hill. The Good Fight
- If this was the UK, I would expect to be ushered to a table (probably grumbling inwardly about the empty tables I passed on the way), then, once seated, make a curt nod and "hullo" to my table mates before either engaging in quiet conversation with my companion or looking pensively out of the window, trying hard to look like I'm thinking of Very Important Things. Amtrak adventures
- Bibliomaniacs were censured, that is, for eschewing commonplace means of engaging the material traces of the literary past and commonplace means of cohabiting with the nation's literary tradition. "Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
- The final programmes will engagingly escort us to the present day, via a coin defaced by Suffragettes, a plate from the Russian revolution, and a credit card, to the final object. A History of the World in 100 Objects is Radio 4 at its best
- When one departs from the deeds of a specific group into speaking of the vices of a whole race or a people, one is descending to demonization and engaging in pure propaganda.
- About once every decade, an animated-film director manages to create a work that finds the perfect blend of innovative, mind-blowing visuals and emotive, engaging content.
- The nine still conscious members of Unit 9 ran at a full clip straight down the hallway, engaging in a mad dash toward the east exit.
- But despite its intrinsic interest, this is not an engaging letter. The Times Literary Supplement
- Guests can lend a hand with ranch chores if they like, baling hay and moving cows to new pastures, all the while swapping stories with Brad McCarthy, the engaging, knowledgeable head wrangler.