Example Sentences

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She would tend to Chiron until his leg was fully recovered, and keep studying Daedalus’s laptop, which had engrossed her for the last two months.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

In fact, he had to devote the whole of his time to the fight which had engrossed him completely.

From The Day of Judgment by Hocking, Joseph

The mind possessed with the liveliest interest in one subject buries itself in it, and, because of this, cannot give itself up to another which before had engrossed the attention.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

The career was about to begin which had engrossed all his boyish ambition—the great race of intellect his very dreams had dwelt upon.

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James

The writing of it had engrossed more of his mind and leisure during the last week than Quita chose to consider quite admissible in those early days.

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud