Example Sentences

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Even without the play-in, the battle for seeds at the top of the East would have been engrossing and unpredictable.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2022

The stories of Thomas Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell and Sir Thomas More might have been engrossing, but the screenplay leaves barely a scratch on any of their surfaces.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2013

On paper, there's no reason why any of this couldn't have been engrossing, or at least tolerable.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2011

The interest of the contest is sufficiently great from the candidature of one philosopher of the first rank, and to Smith himself—already that philosopher's very close friend—it must have been engrossing.

From Life of Adam Smith by Rae, John