How to Use engross in a Sentence

engross

verb

• 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
• Santander started slow, Mullins was engrossed in a brutal slump and Hays was trying to dig his way out of a 3-for-41 skid.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 5 Mar. 2020
• The average worker will spend six hours engrossed in the games throughout the tournament.
  — Christina Austin, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2018
• Email, instant messaging, phone calls, and texts, are just a few ways to interrupt someone engrossed in a task.
  — Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
• Frances was a professional through and through, totally engrossed by science.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024