engross
Example Sentences
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“The excitement and the magic is really about the discovery of the unexpected. It’s so engrossing and it really just gets me engaged with life.”
From Los Angeles Times
Time had a way of evaporating instantly when he was engrossed in an interesting project, such as cataloging his baseball cards, or reading a good mystery.
From Literature
Sid Bellows was too engrossed in perusing pictures of women on the Silver Singles dating site to pay the boy any mind.
From Literature
If you adjust your expectations accordingly, you’re in for an engrossing ride.
This discovery of Orage’s significance in Katherine Mansfield’s life and work matters to scholars, but Ms. Kimber misjudges how much it might engross readers of a biography.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
