ENGAGEMENT in a Sentence

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Anti-North activists clashed with residents of the border area and leftist group members advocating engagement with North Korea.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENGAGEMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
engagement
 n.  act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest; state of being in gear
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Bolkonski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the engagement and his reception by the Minister of War.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
2  They talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
3  "However, there will hardly be an engagement today," said Bagration as if to reassure Prince Andrew.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
4  Evidently the affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X
5  "Yes, I saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as a general engagement," repeated Dolgorukov, evidently prizing this general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with Napoleon.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI
6  But in the secret depths of her soul the question whether her engagement to Boris was a jest or an important, binding promise tormented her.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XII
7  No betrothal ceremony took place and Natasha's engagement to Bolkonski was not announced; Prince Andrew insisted on that.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIV
8  After their engagement, quite different, intimate, and natural relations sprang up between them.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIV
9  He informed her of his engagement to Natasha Rostova.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
10  After Prince Andrew's engagement to Natasha, Pierre without any apparent cause suddenly felt it impossible to go on living as before.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
11  Old Prince Bolkonski heard all the rumors current in the town from Mademoiselle Bourienne and had read the note to Princess Mary in which Natasha had broken off her engagement.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI
12  Princess Mary was the same as always, but beneath her sympathy for her brother, Pierre noticed her satisfaction that the engagement had been broken off.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI
13  Natasha's illness was so serious that, fortunately for her and for her parents, the consideration of all that had caused the illness, her conduct and the breaking off of her engagement, receded into the background.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVI
14  Napoleon having cut our armies apart advanced far into the country and missed several chances of forcing an engagement.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I
15  The Tsarevich hinted at treachery and demanded a general engagement.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
16  The owner knew about the engagement and brought them glasses of champagne on the house.
17  Their engagement was announced in the paper.
18  Crowds of fans gathered outside the Bachchan residence in suburban Mumbai as news of the engagement spread.
19  After their engagement was announced in the papers, friends expected a wonderful wedding in near future.
20  Nothing will convince me to sanction the engagement of my daughter to such a worthless young man.
21  Her friends at work greeted the news of her engagement with cheerful badinage.
22  On the international stage, a lively debate was already raging between those who support American engagement in world institutions and those who believe the United States should use its strength to work unilaterally.
23  The street will provide an education, with crucial lessons about environmental stewardship and citizen engagement; youth are leading the way, but many seniors are also galvanized.
24  The sapphire engagement ring that now adorns the hand of the Duchess of Cambridge, wasn't custom-made; she selected the diamond-encrusted ring from a jewelry collection catalog.
25  Anti-North activists clashed with residents of the border area and leftist group members advocating engagement with North Korea.
26  When you fully engage in the present, there is no room for baggage from the past or fear of the future.
27  Opportunities to create partnerships and to engage is not a year and a half from now, or two years from now.
28  He was using the phrase to exhort his compatriots to prepare for war, to engage in the struggle for freedom.
29  The Israeli and Palestinian girls engage in intense discussions and heated arguments.
30  The children's inherent love of learning is encouraged by giving them opportunities to engage in spontaneous, meaningful activities under the guidance of a trained adult.