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

It’s a story engrossingly described in David K. Randall’s book “The King and Queen of Malibu.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 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

The lesson has been endlessly repeated: "Be humble, patient, self-sustaining; hope only for occasional aids; love others, but not engrossingly, for by being much alone your appointed task can best be done!"

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret