Example Sentences

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Engagements have been sparse over the past three months.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2025

After graduating, she founded Dance Engagements in 2007, an organization dedicated to providing young dancers of all ages, shapes and sizes with dance education through camps, workshops and performances.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2022

Engagements in gas projects stood at $6.7 billion in the first half, compared with $9.5 billion over the whole of last year, it said.

From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2022

Her most recent novel, The Engagements, marries the story behind the famous “a diamond is forever” slogan with the history of a very special ring.

From Time • Apr. 16, 2014

Engagements To Marry.—Future espousals do not give rise to an obligation to contract marriage.

From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Ringrose, Hyacinthe