Example Sentences

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It engrosses two floors of the Breuer with art of total mastery that also, at every turn, casts doubt on its own achievement.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2020

But the nuclear family more urgently tugging on Caroline’s apron and heart strings — her children and friends — is the one that on this occasion engrosses an audience most satisfyingly.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2017

It engrosses, it stuns, it distracts, and it overwhelms.

From The New Yorker • May 18, 2015

And as a movie, A.I. engrosses without quite enthralling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Can any one be thinking of any other but of Him who engrosses her thought?

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus