Example Sentences

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The plot basically sticks to the first seven chapters of the 100-chapter novel, which concerns an engagingly impulsive monkey who obtains superpowers and, to protect his monkey community, enjoys one wily adventure after another.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

Some of his posts, which are engagingly written, without jargon, are shared thousands of times and picked up by news websites.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2024

Virtual environments such as a comedy club, for example, need to support large numbers of user avatars to engagingly simulate the real-world atmospherics of chatter and laughter.

From Reuters • Jan. 18, 2023

But it’s a shame when the character’s verbosity distracts from the trilogy’s other achievements: history rendered with immediacy, with tones and perspectives sometimes engagingly varied.

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2022

He threaded his way out between the stopped cars and leaned engagingly on the sill of our open window.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath