engage

Example Sentences

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Though more engagé than restful, Menand’s “The Free World” is comparably diverting, even at the basement level of the weird factoid.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2021

But as with the title novella, the ironies here are deepened by our foreknowledge of the world that actually awaits the poet: laissez-faire where he wants to be engagé, iron-fisted where he would be free.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2021

The book also has a strange, beguiling tone, somewhere between an engagé documentary and an archaeology of taste.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2019

The 32-year-old American illustrator is a cross between a photojournalist chasing hot spots and a 19th-century écrivain engagé who champions causes with art.

From Economist • Jan. 7, 2016

Not less hearty was the greeting of each Canadian engagé, as he trotted forward to pay his respects to "Monsieur John," and to utter a long string of felicitations, in a most incomprehensible patois.

From Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest by Kinzie, Juliette Augusta Magill