engrossing
adjective
fully occupying the mind or attention; absorbing.
engrossingly
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a word derived from
engrossing.
Example Sentences
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An honorable, accurate summation of a legacy engrossingly laid out in this economically presented hour.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2025
Her chapters on all these writers are engrossingly anecdotal, critically argumentative and sometimes needlessly belligerent in their tone.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
She can establish, immediately and engrossingly, both our characters and their worlds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
“The Lost Leonardo,” which Sony Pictures Classics releases in theaters Friday, engrossingly frames the unlikely saga like an international thriller as opaque as any John Le Carré novel.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2021
We started together at a hand gallop, riding steadily abreast of each other, and here the interest of the chase became so engrossingly intense, that we were sensible to nothing else.
From The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself by de Witt C. Peters
