engross
verb (used with object)
to occupy completely, as the mind or attention; absorb.
was engrossing
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past progressiveof engross.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Sainz and Leclerc staged a race-long battle in the Ferraris in a sprint that was engrossing throughout.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024
It’s hard to say, but the tussle was engrossing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
Critics said “The Gamesman” was engrossing, if perhaps too sweeping in its generalizations.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
It was engrossing to see him resolutely work through his issues before he finally soared again.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 31, 2020
By midsummer, 1775, George Rogers Clark, a remarkably enterprising and independent young pioneer, was "engrossing all the land he could" in Kentucky.
From The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 by Archibald Henderson
