| 单词 | engage |
| 例句 | It seemed I had misread the situation between Sohrab and Ali-Reza, who had acted like friends, but were clearly engaged in some sort of personal vendetta that could only be settled through soccer/non-American football. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The shoulder affected the elbow, and as the elbow engaged, it sent other movements in a chain reaction down into the wrist and, finally, the hand. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Year in, year out, as far back as history is recorded, farmers from across Asia have engaged in the same relentless, intricate pattern of agriculture. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z His first proposition and request, that the dance begun at Mr. Cole’s should be finished there—that the same party should be collected, and the same musician engaged, met with the readiest acquiescence. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z The shoulder affected the elbow, and as the elbow engaged, it sent other movements in a chain reaction down into the wrist and, finally, the hand. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z You do not engage the attention of the reader unless your story has basic human interest elements. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “When you were engaged, were your parents disappointed? When whatever happened with Patricia... happened?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Lawrence arrived in Belgium only a few weeks after he engaged in a minor dustup with Rutherford, at long range, over the prospects for useful energy from the atomic nucleus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She listened as the others talked about how irritable and angry they felt, as if they were engaged in a furious argument, and as they spoke, she seemed to be shrinking. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “For I have read that shepherds like to engage in singing contests.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A spasm of pain seemed to twist him, and he turned away, peering back up towards the pass, shaking his head, as if engaged in some interior debate. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z With enemy forces advancing, the Joint Chiefs requested permission to broaden the mission from merely guarding the base to engaging in what was described as “limited offensive operations.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In Ramallah, Poppy stopped at a store open late for plumbing parts, so he could engage a plumber to head to Sitti’s house the next day. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin—who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As practice for the event of encountering a possible suitor, we urged her to engage in small conversations with nearby men. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Now pay attention, please. Number Two, engage the Receiver.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Here it is important to compare the disputes in which Boyle was engaged with those in which Pascal was engaged. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Those men were engaged in a struggle for life and their choice in the matter was small indeed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He was grim and silent the whole visit, no matter how hard Sofía and her sisters tried to engage him in conversation. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z But these seniors said most boys were like that and you couldn't honestly accuse them of anything until you were at least pinned or engaged to be married. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z For instance, the reaction time grows if the person must make a choice, or engage a particular motor skill, like pressing a specific button. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Or, for that matter, engage in any kind of physical exertion. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z How might you get them to respond actively while engaging a high level of cognitive sophistication? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I was surprised to hear her talk after such a long silence and wanted to engage, but if anyone could address her question, it would be him. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “There's men removing the old garments behind the pork, Prince O. Why don’t you repair there and change and I'll engage this fine lady til you return so she don’t become listless a-waiting.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z On a brisk spring evening not long ago, two dozen men and women gathered in the back room of a Manhattan bar to engage in a peculiar ritual known as speed-dating. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z My opponent doesn’t have to engage my blade, just retreat, keep himself safe as the last minute counts down. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z In 1825, aged just twenty-one, Owen moved to London and soon after was engaged by the Royal College of Surgeons to help organize their extensive, but disordered, collections of medical and anatomical specimens. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z You look around for the enterprises that we engage in collectively and unconsciously, the things we build like wasp nests, individually unaware of what we are doing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She had possession of the rocker, and she was busily engaged in sewing upon a diminutive pair of night drawers. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The young Mr. Gitney possessing a not inconsiderable shelf of books, I surveyed their titles for one which might engage me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Beginning to feel engaged again, and eager to get back to work, Ellsberg was in the Rand offices when Henry Kissinger came for a visit. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Lawrences precocious talent for experimentation and his engaging character were already attracting attention from recruiters in academia and industry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Estraven meanwhile engaged in his customary fierce and silent struggle with sleep, as if he wrestled with an angel. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A proponent of the Great Books series—which he had read twice—Uncle Pete was engaged with serious thought and Italian opera. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Alvarez was using the word amateur in its traditional sense: someone who engaged in a pursuit not for money or fame but purely for the love of knowledge and the abstract quest for truth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The theater for Volpe was where he felt alive and engaged and at home long before he had any idea why. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The most entertaining part of the game by far was trying to get the computer to engage us in humorous conversation: Me: “Touch the cave wall.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z This is the case even when the television flashes to a commercial, Dr. Anderson explains, suggesting that the attention systems lock on even when the narrative isn’t engaging the top-down systems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She had engaged a maid for me, Clarice, the daughter of somebody on the estate, a nice quiet well-mannered girl, who, thank heaven, had never been in service before and had no alarming standards. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “And if you leave without an honorable discharge,” the clerk had said, “not only will you never work at the Concord Corporation again, but no other mill in Lowell will ever engage you.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z An enormous percentage of those who engage in violent acts, for example, have some kind of psychiatric disorder or come from deeply disturbed backgrounds. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mother altered my birth certificate so I could fight in the First World War! That was the only lie she ever told! I was engaged to Fitzgerald’s sister!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A skilled writer can interleave multiple story lines, or deliberately manipulate suspense and surprise, or engage the reader with a chain of associations, each topic shunting the reader to the next. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In .the dim-lit gallery outside the Great Hall, they came upon Joseth the master of horse engaged in a different sort of riding. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I heard. Don’t much go on ’round here that get past me, but for the past two weeks, I been engaged in bringing a couple of coffles back from the markets in Charleston. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Though no open battles took place, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a cold war. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z If there are significant differences in the surveys to be found, they frequently suggest that whites, particularly white youth, are more likely to engage in illegal drug dealing than people of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By proceeding systematically in this manner, the police are able to engage in an extremely high volume of searches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Virtually all other Eurasian societies engaged in agriculture as well as in herding animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He walks out, engaged in low conversation with his men, snapping at Sana to follow. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I saw Annabeth draw a sword and engage one of them. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Ketchup-wigged french fries would march across our plates, engaging in brief affairs or heated disputes over carrot coins while burly chicken legs guarded the perimeter, ready to jump in should things get out of hand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “She’s lovely, she’s engaged, she uses Pond’s” the advertisement read, showing two exquisitely white hands with perfectly formed and manicured nails, long nails, and a diamond ring sparkling on the gracefully curved left hand. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z How will I capture learners’ attention and engage them? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The point is, he's engaged to be married. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes they are victims of professional narcissism and write as if the reader were interested in every blind alley, fool’s errand, and wild-goose chase they engaged in while exploring the topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Soon they were engaged in air battles just as fierce as those they’d fought the previous summer. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The situation was made still more delicate by the fact that, years ago, Tessie and Michael Antoniou had been engaged to be married. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Do I dare engage in some major time theft? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Based on numbers, it has a limitless complexity to engage the ingenuity and creativity of its adherents, without burdening them with the need for validation or testing. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When it's not engaged, a thin stream of air seeps in through the top. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “That’s it. End of story. We didn’t secretly get engaged or anything.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Marriage was still more mysterious to him than it was to me, but in the fourteen months we’d been engaged, he’d been nothing but all in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z On their trip back home, Dries became privately engaged to a woman named Annie. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “So are you and Wells secretly engaged or something?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The children watched as the clockwork gears and levers inside the man began to engage. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z In contrast, once food can be stockpiled, a political elite can gain control of food produced by others, assert the right of taxation, escape the need to feed itself, and engage full-time in political activities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I limped hurriedly back to the gate, to find Mr. Armin and Falconer engaged in heated combat. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z It did not mean so much to have a father in the state legislature and a sister who was engaged to a champion skier. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z When none stepped forward to engage in this strange office, Serjeant Clippinger surveyed us; I was struck with surprise when he called out my name. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Notable too was his willingness to engage in actual physical work. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She also plays with to be, the quintessential^ existential verb, to engage our existential puzzlement: Would I then be someone else or would I just no longer be?... The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Statements like: he was in South Africa only to fight, and not to engage in politics; therefore the press should stop hounding him for comments on apartheid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of us engaged our own kind, more or less. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted appeared even to my boy’s apprehensions as tyros engaged in the same pursuit. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first week of November of 1968, Mike Company was engaged in heavy fighting with a much larger North Vietnamese regiment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Octavian met him there but did not engage in battle. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z That was one reason I didn’t like the way Mama was carrying on so about Grandpa getting engaged. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “It’s because you’re a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z If a man you are supposedly engaged to calls you one, you ought to know. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh! he told me all about it; that Jane Fairfax and Mr. Frank Churchill are to be married, and that they have been privately engaged to one another this long while. How very odd!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z It would take place in cities as often as on battlefields, be fueled by ideas as much as by weapons, and engage cultures and economies as much as armies. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Those who believe that advocacy challenging mass incarceration can be successful without overturning the public consensus that gave rise to it are engaging in fanciful thinking, a form of denial. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For the rest of her life she imagined her cousins worked for kind and generous masters up north, engaged in more forgiving trades than her own, weaving or spinning, nothing in the fields. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I knew it. I knew you were hiding something. Listen to me: that squirrel is diseased. You are engaging in dangerous behavior.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z For a time, we were entertained by Will and John's ready store of wit and comic roguery as they engaged each other in kicking games. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Often these categories overlap, since nearly everyone who engages in violence first survives it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At eighty-two, he was as engaged in politics and as opinionated as ever. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Habitually putting himself in other people’s shoes, he was in his private life charming and engaging, generous and genuinely empathetic. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was, too, a curiously deliberate edge to the way he went on to inquire again: 'So you found them an engaging bunch, eh?' indeed, Doctor. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He was engaged in a line of work that was dependent solely on his ability to win the trust of others, and one in which the most intimate relationships were necessary. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Normally, orbits would be worked out by Vogel, but he was otherwise engaged. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We were engaged in a no- win hate war. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Engaged since October,—secretly engaged.—It has hurt me, Emma, very much. It has hurt his father equally. Some part of his conduct we cannot excuse.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Plainly skeptical but unwilling to engage in a colloquy with a wheedling Teller, Fermi pleaded that he was too tired from the flight to give him a hearing, much less a commitment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The fact is,” Tom said gloomily, “we was not engaged.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Two teenagers engaged in a snowball-throwing contest from the dock at Port Jefferson Harbor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When I entered she had seated herself on one of the wicker chairs scattered around its interior, evidently engaged in some needlework. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The human was trying to engage a troll in macho repartee! Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z For a couple that has apparently just got engaged, they sure are atypical. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z This dearest of heroes to the Athenians engaged the attention of many writers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernest was now engaged in an unceasing circuit of meetings with foundation boards and speaking invitations all over the country. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In fact, of course, Lyra and her peers were engaged in deadly warfare. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z After a time, I glanced up from the trance in which the tale had engaged me to find the men of my mess staring mistrustfully at me and at my book. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Many of the leading institutions of this country and abroad are now engaged in building laboratories similarly equipped,” Lawrence noted. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Are you trying to engage me in a philosophical discussion so that you can miss part of math?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I nevertheless felt a great sense of accomplishment and satisfaction: I had been engaged in a just cause and had the strength to fight for it and win. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Such a day is not distasteful; for I find that I am no longer merely an observer, sat upon a dark deck; but I am engaged in the struggle, and this itself brings joy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z On the night of February 26, 2012, Martin had engaged in an altercation with Zimmerman, who was the neighborhood watch coordinator for the Sanford, Florida, gated community in which the confrontation took place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z During that same summer of the Americans’ annihilation by the Soviets, Bobby Fischer, now twelve, was engaged in his own battles on the board, playing in a tournament in Greenwich Village. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t mind admitting also that I am not engaged.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I am making books, documentaries, and speeches, and I am meeting interesting people, doing social media campaigns, and engaging in humanitarian work. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z "I mean, not yet. I guess my dad's engaged to his mom. But, no, he's not asleep. We're watching Fraggle Rock." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Henry stomps on the gas, cursing, and rather than telling him what to do, I reach over and engage the four-wheel drive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Reaching her side, Dr. Trefusis engaged in a low bow, saying, “Mademoiselle, may I present to you Private Octavian Nothing of Boston.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I usually got a little exercise while logged into the OASIS, by engaging in physical combat or running around the virtual landscape on my treadmill. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Or we can just follow them and not engage, which is our best bet,” Valley said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z In the mornings he seemed much engaged with business, and, in the afternoon, gentlemen from Millcote or the neighbourhood called, and sometimes stayed to dine with him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There were cards that required you to play an air guitar solo, speak like an English-dubbed anime character, eat leaves like a giraffe, engage in staring contests, and end every sentence with the word dawg. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I loved the roar of a fully engaged audience, and the crowd in Brazil was one of the best. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Once the lockout was engaged, you couldn’t disable it for two months. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Farmer had a deeper explanation about sorcery, and he liked to engage me in conversations about it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z There is a certain engaging irony therefore that when he won the Nobel Prize in 1908, it was in chemistry, not physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “What! are we to have the pleasure of a call from Mr. Elton?—That will be a favour indeed! for I know gentlemen do not like morning visits, and Mr. Elton’s time is so engaged.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z It was the sort of overly aggressive maneuver only a Soulless Minion of Orthodoxy would engage in. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The more projects his team of remote executive assistants engages in, the more knowledge they build up. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z There were only a few vendors, and all were engaged in harried negotiations with rebels, lean and sullen and above all bored, jostling and shoving and bilking as a way to pass the time. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In order to strike this balance, Blue’s Clues engages in much of the same kind of research as Sesame Street — but at a far more intense level. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now this won’t do,” said John, hardening his heart against the engaging little sinner. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had abject terror at the idea of the group,” said Croteau, who is blunt and intellectually engaging. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In truth, he had simply allowed himself to get caught engaging in the same talk that Jefferson was conveying to friends and Monroe was sputtering out loud to anyone in Paris who would listen. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Once on a train to Durgapur to visit an uncle, a couple had been bold enough to ask her parents if she was engaged; they had a son doing his surgical residency in Michigan. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She sat up like a young lady who was engaged to be married. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I wasn’t really sleeping, but I was otherwise engaged. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z He was implying that Zeitoun and Nasser were romantically engaged, and that Zeitoun, fearing detection, had leapt from the bed when he heard the guard approaching. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And to get to know each other better, he reasons, they should get engaged. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And I’d be engaged to Stuart and I wouldn’t wear short dresses, only short hair, or consider doing anything risky like write a book about colored housekeepers, too afraid he’d disapprove. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter had let it be known when she first arrived that she was a holy woman engaged in meditation and prayer, and under a vow never to speak to a man. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But they knew better than to engage him in a verbal battle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And every spare minute he spent there he wanted to be engaged in chess, hopefully playing with the highest-rated masters in the country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The weak force engages in more miscellaneous tasks, mostly to do with controlling the rates of certain sorts of radioactive decay. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She generally came at the hour when Mr. Rivers was engaged in giving his daily catechising lesson. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There was nothing in all this either to astonish or interest, and it caught Emma’s attention only as it united with the subject which already engaged her mind. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z While I was thus engaged, Ernest entered: he had heard me arrive, and hastened to welcome me: “Welcome, my dearest Victor,” said he. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z The baby was busily engaged in spooning out the oatmeal and dumping it on the floor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I apologize, but one has to be so careful when one is connected to royalty. You see, Charmont and I have an understanding. We are secretly engaged.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Emma’s confusion, and the acknowledged intimacy, seemed to declare her affection engaged. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z English and American troops are already engaged in heavy combat. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Therefore, what must be planned for, in the laboratories engaged in the work, is the totally unforeseeable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The little gold hairs were curled in a very engaging way at her temples. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I considered myself beyond the stage of street-fighting, and one of the worst things I could do upon returning to the community was to engage in a brawl. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It said, “These women, who constitute the active members of the Anti-Suffrage majority, have realized that strength lies in organization and, therefore, they have formed themselves into societies to engage in active preventive measures.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I think engaging with a Last Friend could do me some good. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Adding to the lure, he said, there is a concept of “attentional inertia,” which shows that the longer someone stays engaged with the television, the more likely that person is to have trouble pulling away. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He was also actively engaged in gathering information about the British. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The spoken word is older than our species, and the instinct for language allows children to engage in articulate conversation years before they enter a schoolhouse. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The answer is that when our unconscious engages in thin-slicing, what we are doing is an automated, accelerated unconscious version of what Gottman does with his videotapes and equations. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z At seventeen, I may not have known how to engage a girl in small talk, but I had read Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It is what physicians used to be engaged in at the bedside of patients with diphtheria, meningitis, poliomyelitis, lobar pneumonia, and all the rest of the infectious diseases that have since come under control. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The slaves were engaged in the tobacco fields, weeding. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “I am not accusing you of engaging in boyish fancy. I am advising you to avoid the appearance of boyish fancy.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Many educated adults would be left out of a discussion that criticized the president for not engaging in more “quantitative easing,” though they would understand the process if it were spelled out. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I was thankful there was this spirit of amity; we were neither of us anxious to engage in futile disputes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And I hadn't engaged the parking brake, either. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Milton had his foot to the floor, engaging what he called the goose gear. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Reckless endangerment: “under circumstances not amounting to a felony office, the person recklessly engages in conduct that creates a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury of another person.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z IWo Corps had been engaged at Gettysburg and had been driven off. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. No. I don’t. I do. I’m engaging in hyperbole. It seems as if the glasses have been glued to my head.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z This suggests that it took a while for Boyle to think of the word ‘fact’ as a respectable term to be used in natural philosophy when engaging with scholastics and Cartesians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Arrangements were made for the preparation of their city home and a couple were engaged as housekeepers for the country home. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “So, since 2001, America has been engaged in a new kind of war...a war on terror.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z There was one step in particular she felt was essential in spurring her children to be engaged at home and in school. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In other words, he was the type of man she knew she would fall for, except that she had been told he was already engaged to another woman. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It was a good while and he no longer carried the flowers, and when he returned to the gate, he was engaged to be married. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z His projects conduct electricity, engage motion with toothed wheels, react in concert with universal laws of physics. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z How could the War on Drugs operate in a discriminatory manner, on such a large scale, when hardly anyone advocates or engages in explicit race discrimination? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z According to the consultant, Mrs. Grace V. Mirman, the challenge for the parents of someone "highly gifted" was to find ways to keep the child engaged and stimulated. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He “was eminently engaging and social and he had a keen sense of humor,” his partners wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They’d shucked off their hats and messed up each other’s hair and were thrashing around, engaged in a sisterly tickle fight. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I think of my father, a born Erudite, not Divergent; a man who could not help but be smart, choosing Abnegation, engaging in a lifelong struggle against his own nature, and ultimately fulfilling it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Of course, the Klan opposed any changes in the status quo, but the Durham unit engaged in no actions in this period. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They took care to engage the temple priesthood, which was essentially a system of religious corporations with their own pecuniary interests. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The next moment, Mrs Taylor was showing in a well- built man, perhaps in his fifties, who judging from his dress had spent the day engaged in agricultural work. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Not more engaged with their job, but happier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They had, in impudence, chosen this night, the night of our festive lampoon, for their attack, knowing our officers engaged in the drama; there could be little question of that. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Then, in 1921, the British embarked on their first expedition to Everest, and their decision to engage Sherpas as helpers sparked a transformation of Sherpa culture. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z If I was engaged in conversation, he was supposed to say, “Pardon me, Delphine. May I have this dance?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He saw me, and when our eyes met I gave him my most engaging smile. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There was a slight chip in one of his front teeth I’d never noticed before; it gave his smile a very engaging quality. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z All of a sudden, Addie gets all sympathetic, like she’s ten years older than me and engaged or something and I’m her pimply little brother. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “While others argued the equality of woman with man, I proved it by successful engaging in business,” Woodhull was quoted in the New York Herald. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Troops on land stood by to engage Octavian’s army once Mark Antony’s ships broke through the blockade. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Students are creating films, plays, and poems and are engaging with one another online to share their anger and also their hopes and ideas for a better tomorrow. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She draws her scim and plunges into the fight, forcing two of the attackers to engage. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She appeared to be trying to engage him in conversation. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He was the nominal leader of a clan of samurai called the Heike, who were engaged in a long and bloody war with another samurai clan, the Genji. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve engaged him to sign up with us. Seems to me we struck lucky a coming here.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I could tell that because the obstinate, competitive look left his face as his mind became engaged for the first time. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The first two lines would sweep up the river to engage and destroy Jeffrey's little fleet, or "the boy's toys" as Ser Imry dubbed them, to the mirth of his lordly captains. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I was not alone in this feeling and I joined a group of young men who engaged in secret evening expeditions to the university’s farmland, where we built a fire and roasted mealies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another arranged the tusks so that they curved backwards on the engaging theory that the creature had been aquatic and had used them to anchor itself to trees while dozing. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The bleachers had been erected in what was normally a pasture, and they afforded a view of a spacious plywood arena in which a dozen young men engaged in a game of soccer. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Indeed, he thought it inappropriate for scientists to engage in political activity of any kind—“political fiddling around,” as he called it in a conversation with Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So were we engaged when the attack began. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In southern Indiana, for example, a group of farmers went together in the summer of 1959 to engage a spray plane to treat an area of river bottomland with parathion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Ironically, even though embryology had launched the discipline of modern genetics, the reconciliation between genes and genesis would be a vastly more engaging scientific problem. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I have come to think of myself as engaged in writing graffiti. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After her diagnosis, April had gotten engaged to Neal Harris, a BYU grad who worked hard and was intensely devoted to his friends. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For the CEO with the bad hamburger meat, Sandman engages in “outrage reduction”; for the environmentalists, it’s “outrage increase.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It looked as if a crowd of moles had engaged in a burrowing frenzy. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z With all the visitors engaged in playtime pursuits, however, Apples to Apples is the only game left on the shelf, and Mackenzie grabs it, not knowing the sordid history. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Have the objectives evolved since the last time the students engaged with this subject matter? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He assured them that the resolution against engaging in trade and using money had never been passed, or even suggested. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But he looked at Isabelle, and it was as if he could feel all the cogs and wheels begin to engage in his mind, and the words suddenly came together. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z By then, my grandparents had a volatile relationship, plagued by the fact that my grandfather had engaged in an extramarital affair with a younger woman. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Beneath gray skies, I wandered the streets, engaged not simply in my errand, but also in wonder at what was about me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The crowd across from us was likewise engaged in searching the skies. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Regina wasn’t buying his sales pitch and wrote back that Armstrong and his church were feeding Bobby a line of mumbo jumbo and engaging in fear mongering. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Both the Army and the Navy were forbidden to engage in law enforcement. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z All human beings are capable of the sort of intellectual activity that tracking requires, and when we investigate a problem we are engaged, as the realists claim, in a sophisticated version of the same activity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The largest liners actually had their own shipboard brewery, which they put into operation during those times when, instead of engaging in a transatlantic voyage, they were engaged in a four-day “cruise to nowhere.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “I don’t blame them,” he was saying, “wanting to be alone. I’m an engaged man myself. I know how it is. The last leave—the only girl.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But that means now he comes around the house all the time, too, and I have to act engaged! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Overhead, the helicopter was engaged in its roaring flutter. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn't even vaguely engaged. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z And then, on the twenty-ninth move, with the position equal, Fischer engaged in one of the most dangerous gambles of his career. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I try to keep busy by flipping through comic books, but for some reason they don’t feel engaging today. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z As noted earlier, at least 10 percent of Americans violate drug laws every year, and people of all races engage in illegal drug activity at similar rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Today let’s consider the whirling machinery, children, that must engage inside your head for you to scratch your eyebrow . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Game Time and Crunch Time engaged in a particularly sweaty and determined fencing match, their improvised swords—a fireplace poker and a snow shovel handle—whizzing and clanking. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z We were not yet ready to engage the enemy on its own terms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s acting like we’re about to engage in serious physical labor. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z That year Pakistan was engaged in civil war. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She clasps my hand in the air with the healthy grip of a mother holding her newly engaged daughter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And Verdi understood that opera was at its most powerful when attempting to impart universal truths through emotionally engaging morality fables. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Cora changed the subject when he engaged in such talk. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My father told me about the Zionist activities he was engaged in, the speeches he was making, the funds he was raising. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He broke down the issues with the death penalty simply but persuasively, and I hung on every word, completely engaged by his dedication and charisma. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Barack was relieved to be done with law school, eager to get out of the abstract realm of academia and into work that felt more engaging and real. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We engaged in some few brief exercises, but were ragged in our showing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z On an average night, one need engage in only a few minutes of channel surfing during prime-time hours to stumble across images of gangsta culture on television. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Further, the research showed, the “quality” of the interaction fell, too, with the parent less likely to be engaged or even look at the child when they do interact. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And when Frank got engaged the following yean he built a house on Emma’s property so that Bernard could see his grandmother every day as ever. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents, engaged in the world’s quietest argument. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Although African Americans do not engage in drug crime at significantly higher rates than whites, black men do have much higher rates of violent crime, and violent crime is concentrated in ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Gregarious and happy to engage on any topic, Wimmer jumped right in during the hearing to express his concern about the proposed texting ban. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The dry vernacular of the science paper read: “The current data shows the need to text now may simply reflect the need to engage in a behavior that only has value in the short term.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Everyone is hungry to engage their minds and hands. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You didn’t really expect Maya to get engaged. She’s not even eighteen yet. She has to focus on her studies.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Similarly, in Louisiana, journalists reported that Louisiana police engaged in massive pretextual stops in an effort to seize cash, with the money diverted to police department ski trips and other unauthorized uses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I learned that Americans drove on the right side of the road, not the left, and that they called a lift an elevator and an engaged phone busy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It is fascinating that the word “explore” does not apply to the searching aspect of the activity, but has its origins in the sounds we make while engaged in it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I could make them believe they had really engaged a girl in conversation. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It is the only time I have seen his eyes bright and engaged, like he has been plugged in. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I have been homeschooled before, by parents who were engaged and engaging, who made sure their kids had room to explore and grow. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z David was more interested in his other hand, which was actively engaged in picking his nose. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Granted, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had engaged in extensive debates about the slave trade and how to count slaves for the purposes of representation and taxation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They kept company for a little while, became engaged, and were married in Katie’s church on New Year’s Day, nineteen hundred and one. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She liked working with her husband and often watched him when he was engaged with a customer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "Splendid. Return to Ser Addam and tell him to fall back. He is not to engage the northerners until we arrive, but I want him to harass their flanks and draw them farther south." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Wasn’t my nephew Jem,” he said slowly, “engaged to marry his great-uncle’s son’s wife’s second cousin?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The act granted public housing agencies the authority to use leases to evict any tenant, household member, or guest engaged in any criminal activity on or near public housing premises. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z One of the girls in yellow was playing the piano and beside her stood a tall, red haired young lady from a famous chorus, engaged in song. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I asked if he was engaged or had any special girlfriend, thinking maybe that's what was the matter, but he said no, he made a point of keeping clear of such attachments. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z They met in veterinary school at Kansas State University and had gotten engaged a few weeks later, and they were married when Nancy was twenty. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They also engaged the best seamstresses to make the floating graduating dresses and to cut down secondhand pants which would be pressed to a military slickness for the important event. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If I thought there was one modicum of sense in what you are saying I might bother to engage with you in this discussion. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The performances were sacred; the spectators, too, along with the writers and the performers, were engaged in an act of worship. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a key difference between Galileo and his opponents: both appealed to experience, but Galileo had engaged in a programme of experimentation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One of them had actually found a bag of prunes and was currently engaged in stuffing them in his mouth. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Gerald Black had taken his degree in etheric physics the year before and, in common with his entire generation of physicists, found himself engaged in the problem of the Drive. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He appreciated that sometimes Martin knew not to engage him in small talk, and this was one of those times. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z When I was about nine, the ancient half-sister got engaged to be married. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “To make a choice, you need frontal lobes active and you need enough competitors in other parts of the brain so that you can engage systems to make a decision.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The Standoff Mark Antony, forced to take action, tried to engage Octavian’s forces in battle, but Octavian refused to fight. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z In the early Evening, the Firing grew greater, which was General Putnam arrived with Reinforcements & engaging with Parliament’s Schooner. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z How he went after Minerva while he was still engaged. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But I did not consider myself otherwise engaged at all, and here he was, offering me temporary respite from the tyranny of the house. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z If the material excites you, your students will be engaged as well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Regina tried giving her son the approval that every child needs, and the wings to find himself, by encouraging him to engage in sports, take part in family excursions, and do better in school. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I am not going to engage in polite small talk with them. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Lowell dabbled in astronomy as a young man, went to Harvard, secured a semi-official diplomatic appointment to Korea, and otherwise engaged in the usual pursuits of the wealthy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Below that, pistons and large cylinders engaged in a relentless dance with the ten wheels, two sets of small ones in front and three behind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He felt gears grinding beneath the controls, but nothing would engage. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He had long since turned over the running of the family business to his only son, my father, Alfred Tate, and spent his days engaged in “experiments” in his “laboratory” out back. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Her interests broadened and she listened intently to the radio, captivated by the political and financial stories, which failed to engage me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She’d held out hope that Jimmy’s hogs would lure Royal back in time, but he and his partners were still engaged in their mission for the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He hadn’t seen his little brother this engaged in something that had nothing to do with basketball in years. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Though our forces were not victorious, we quietly celebrated the fact that our MK cadres had engaged the enemy in combat on their own terms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat upon the dead grass and ate our rations as we watched Will and John, who are the favorites of our company, engage in their antics by the berm. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The Warners stayed free in a condo that belonged to Neal Harris, Terryl’s old friend from Southern California who had been engaged to April before she died of cancer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z On the drive home, try as they might, her daughters could not engage their mother in conversation, for inspired by what she had just seen, Laura had begun inventing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Half a dozen nurses, trousered and jacketed in the regulation white viscose-linen uniform, their hair aseptically hidden under white caps, were engaged in setting out bowls of roses in a long row across the floor. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They doubted that American listeners would find the British story engaging, despite the updates. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z They had gone to college and were engaged to pretty, clean girls whose pictures were already standing on the rough cement mantelpiece of Orr’s fireplace. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Some years later, DePreist was engaged to conduct a series of concerts with Washington’s National Symphony at Constitution Hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z First mate angry; said it was folly, and to yield to such foolish ideas would demoralise the men; said he would engage to keep them out of trouble with a handspike. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Where she was serious and gentle he was intense and humorous, utterly engaged in the world in a way none of her family really was. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As time went by, my mother started nudging me to go outside and engage with kids in the neighborhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Some engaged primarily in planning parties and charity balls. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The discovery of America in 1492. created a new enterprise that intellectuals could engage in: the discovery of new knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Any transactions engaged in for this purpose are outside the scope of General License no. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It is true that descriptive and prescriptive rules are different kinds of things and that descriptive and prescriptive grammarians are engaged in different kinds of activities. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Siddhartha had already long taken part in the learned men’s conversations, had engaged in debate with Govinda and had practiced the art of contemplation and meditation with him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Journalists and investigators have documented numerous other instances in which police departments have engaged in illegal shakedowns, searches, and threats in search of forfeitable property and cash. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The two countries struggled for supremacy using political maneuvering, stockpiling weapons, and fighting “proxy” wars in other, smaller countries where they didn’t directly engage each other. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He wanted us to ask each other hard questions—to question ourselves and our ideas about the world—and he wanted us to engage directly with each other in ways we otherwise never would. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “It is more than I engage for, I assure you.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “We re not supposed to engage any large units,” Brunner said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a matter which might even engage the attention of the Lord God himself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Organizations and researchers have produced countless studies on the arts’ effectiveness and ability to engage children cognitively, emotionally, physically, and artistically: in other words, on a holistic level. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Sender frowned, glancing across the courtyard where Lev was engaged in deep conversation with other stiff old men. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She owed her greatest relief to her friend Miss Lucas, who often joined them, and good-naturedly engaged Mr. Collins’s conversation to herself. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Since Caroline had announced that she was engaged, we’d had bone soup with our supper every single night. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z They also engage in what is called motor mimicry. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Too much media would be numbing, dulling, cheat her children of an engaged life, the kind she’d always craved as a child. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z That their fraternity engaged in quasi-religious chanting and oath taking and hosanna hailing, all of it top secret, made it that much more appealing. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Although this was likely an exaggeration, it’s clear that Bobby hated memorizing things that failed to engage his interest, and multiplication tables fell into that category. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z With my cloaking device engaged, I selected the nearest instance of the city and landed the Vonnegut just outside the wall of its dome, watching my scopes for other ships. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The tableau of a little boy engaged in mental combat with a judge, doctor, or college professor some eight or ten times his age was often greeted with mirth and wonder. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “You should be so lucky as to get engaged,” she says. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Plus, Ocean and I had never really engaged each other in Mr. Jordan’s class, so the whole thing was pretty low-key. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Even though many of these children have done nothing wrong, they are targeted by police, presumed guilty, and suspected by law enforcement of being dangerous or engaged in criminal activity. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Adele was engaged to a wonderful man from our tribe, but they weren’t living together, as that would have been frowned upon. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The term used by linguists to describe what Klotz was engaging in in that moment is “mitigated speech,” which refers to any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They were all deeply engaged, hard at work, and competitive. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then the Brianas are talking about life after high school— one is a musician, one is planning to be a copy editor, and the other is practically engaged to her longtime boyfriend. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I gulped it down like it was lemonade to keep from having to engage in any more conversation. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z You are hereby directed to refrain from engaging in any of the activities described above. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It all triggered when I told her I’d gotten engaged to a Senegalese guy I met at Emory; I guess she was hoping that I’d settle down with someone from Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She looked closely at Tiller’s smooth skin, that tall, straight back, that engaging grin. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Bobby rode a horse named Chub, played with a black-and-white calf, engaged in an occasional softball game, and made a boat in the arts-and-crafts class—but he still couldn’t relate to the other children. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z An old man belonging to Colonel Lloyd, while thus engaged, happened to get beyond the limits of Colonel Lloyd’s, and on the premises of Mr. Beal Bondly. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z These are “executive function” tasks, meaning they engage the prefrontal cortex, that all-important part of the brain involved in focus. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z During his senior year there, he became engaged to the daughter of the founder and owner of the school, and then suffered a mild nervous collapse. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Parthia and Rome had been engaged in a tug of war for decades as provinces along the eastern border of Rome’s territory changed hands and shifted loyalties. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z This was the other thing teenagers in Lily did on Friday nights— Lucas and Mena were engaged in the same sort of behavior in the front seat. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z They developed locally dense populations chronically engaged in ferocious wars with neighboring populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Behind them, the rest of the bears were engaging with the strange cavalry, helped by the Gallivespians, whose stings enraged the horses. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Yes, I’m engaged all right. But it isn’t the same between her and me as it is between you and me.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The only person who tries to engage me is Kelsea’s lab partner, Lena. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z To Heth Lee said, “What units have you engaged?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One theory is that our brains evolved because our primate ancestors began to engage in more sophisticated food gathering: instead of just eating grasses and leaves they began eating fruit, which takes more thinking power. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But apart from engaging guards, there was nothing she could do. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Despite the life-and-death stakes, the Marines were eager to engage the enemy. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But it does make the process of dying seem more exceptional than it really is, and harder to engage in at the times when we must ourselves engage. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z From the first, it was not as though we were engaged in tense political arguments but a lively and interesting tutorial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The first was the idea that the more kids are engaged in watching something — intellectually and physically — the more memorable and meaningful it becomes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a debut after the Armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z A distinguished Canadian entomologist, Dr. A. W. A. Brown, was engaged by the World Health Organization to make a comprehensive survey of the resistance problem. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Besides, Millie was engaged and there was a wedding to plan, a subject Caroline found far more interesting than her own education. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Even with the lovely librarian lurking, I kept to myself so I wouldn’t have to engage in any taxing conversation or answer any probing questions. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The starboard wing was heavily engaged, however, and the center had shattered under the stones of those trebuchets, some captains tinning downstream, others veering to port, anything to escape that crushing rain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Once, in the Midst of it, I saw Prince; he was engaged in digging. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z While thus engaged I heard a rumble of trucks in the distance. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Hippocrates of Chios is included not because he wrote the first geometry textbook but because he engaged in trade. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I'm sure the reputation isn't entirely undeserved, but how prudish can we be when almost everyone I know has engaged in a three-way? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She was “sitting across from him very busily engaged on something else.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Huddled in the hallways and making the most of our pathetic French, my fellow students and I engaged in the sort of conversation commonly overheard in refugee camps. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But, oh boy, if those fast cheerleaders who teased me for being a preacher’s kid could see me now, practically engaged to an older man! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That Bear was engaged in rebellion of some sort I could not doubt. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He wished the man would not keep asking him questions, as if to engage him, as if the man were the host and Richard the visitor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Police departments and highway patrol agencies frequently declare, “We do not engage in racial profiling,” even though their officers routinely use race as a factor when making decisions regarding whom to stop and search. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z To please our father, Laertes took every chance to engage in fierce competition with Prince Hamlet He knew that to advance at court, he had to master all manner of sports and combat. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z What an engaging and magical thought for a boy on the road in a countryside dappled and rippling in sunlight. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Have the objectives evolved since the last time the students engaged with this subject matter?Have the objectives evolved since the last time the students engaged with this subject matter? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “I would have been more engaged in what was going on with Richard, I think. For him to say, ‘I did wrong and I’m sorry and I hope you get better.’ The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I was also criticized at the conference for engaging in “personal diplomacy” and not keeping the rank-and-file of the organization informed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom is very smart and certainly engages us on many levels, but when we asked a difficult question, she’d say, ‘Because I said so.’ Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z During these years he engaged in a number of different steam-engine experiments, the high point of which was the construction of a steam-powered carriage which ran around the floor of his parlour. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Let me be rightly understood. This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place. No, never. Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter. Now what have you to say?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “British landing craft are engaged in combat with German naval units,” according to the BBC. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z As it happened, when she entered my pantry that evening, I was not in fact engaged in professional matters. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She still looked shaky and pale, but her mind was now obviously engaged in the problem at hand. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z All across the river the first line was engaged. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Guitar leaned his head over to the side and smiled at Milkman, an engaging boyish smile. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Those engaged in the development and manufacture of weapons of mass destruction are given salaries, perquisites of power and, where possible, public honors at the highest levels available in their respective societies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He hurled the javelin across the field, a symbol of engaging in combat with a foreign enemy. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He refused to accept that Ernest might have participated in Strauss’s campaign against him or engaged in any of the rumormongering about his Communist tendencies that periodically swept the Berkeley campus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But when she tried to engage him in conversation he seemed uninterested, taking my hand and backing away, his gestures saying, “Thanks, but no thanks.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over a question that most of us would consider to have been settled years ago. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I had been a fair debater at Fort Hare, and in my early years in the organization I had engaged in many impassioned debates on the platform. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then her eyes fell upon six or seven robots busily engaged at a round table halfway across the room. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “I said you were engaged to this guy from back home from when you were three, but otherwise no,” Tats say. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Instead, the girl was deeply engaged in picking her nose. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He was not profusely thankful and there was that silence about him, that bearded, gruff, and giant silence, that unwillingness to engage the protocols of island life. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “After you were gone last night, I told my friend of the struggle that the soldiers found you engaged in on the marshes, when we came up. You remember?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Singer, obviously more engaged in what she was saying to Phyllis, glanced at us standing by the entrance and she, too, gave a little wave. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z They got engaged a few years after the launch of the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Tell me once for all, are you engaged to him?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z In the afternoon, all hands were engaged in preparations to abandon the stockade. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We engage in it communally, compulsively, and automatically. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In time she created a whole miniature world of household animals and people engaged in every trade: carpenters, laundresses, cooks, each with his or her own tiny tools and furniture. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately the piece of work he was engaged on was mere routine, the rectification of a long list of figures, not needing close attention. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z As my friends and I ate and gossiped, she often stood by quietly, engaged in some household chore, not hiding the fact that she was taking in every word. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z After the settlement, North Korea’s lawyers said it was “staggeringly unfair” to suggest that the country engaged in insurance fraud. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She engaged in disputes that annoyed the local nobility, and she sold soporific and perhaps hallucinogenic drugs as do contemporary Mexican curanderas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, sure,” Chas said, obvious in his lack of enthusiasm at engaging his new roomie in conversation. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Something wilder, more engaging and infinitely more satisfying to individual participants is arising alongside the old order.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z He refused to see anything about any of us except our most engaging qualities, which he cultivated and magnified to the exclusion of all our tedious and less desirable ones. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Mommy liked for us to play sports because they kept us active and engaged with kids from school and around the neighborhood. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z They were more likely to engage in active listening, saying such things as “Go on, tell me more about that,” and they were far more likely to laugh and be funny during the visit. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As a family we had always done everything together and we didn’t see why the ancient half-sister should suddenly decide to do things differently even if she had become engaged. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, studies suggest that white professionals may be the most likely of any group to have engaged in illegal drug activity in their lifetime, yet they are the least likely to be made criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was hard for Charles to concentrate on work with Annie being listless and weak, so unlike her usual energetic, engaged, cheerful self. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must have been otherwise engaged. But who would expect any different from a no-account sheriff of a no-account town?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z For all his interest at the hearing, he had never seemed particularly engaged over the basic question of whether Walter was guilty or innocent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Each night was a struggle, more fierce now that we were daily engaged in it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Her thoughts were instantly driven back to the time when Mr. Bingley’s name had been the last mentioned between them; and, if she might judge by his complexion, his mind was not very differently engaged. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z They also aid in creating positive and interesting lessons that fully engage the student. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “You are joking, Lizzy. This cannot be!—engaged to Mr. Darcy! No, no, you shall not deceive me. I know it to be impossible.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z No amount of natural wonders, of rigid cliffs and belching waters, of smoking springs could even engage my attention while that pandemonium went on. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z If you weren’t engaging me, you were in trouble. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Jake got behind the man, wrapped his arms around his belly, and gave five fist thrusts to the abdomen, pulling up as he yanked in to engage the diaphragmatic muscle. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Mother tried to engage her in conversation about music, but she would have none of it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z People who were gay, resisted gender norms, or engaged in interracial dating often found themselves involuntarily committed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Its cloaking device was still engaged and its shields were up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My grandfather engaged a special company to come in with polishing machines and clean the house; they washed the windows, painted, and disinfected the place from top to bottom until it was livable again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Leeches have been heard to tap rhythmically on leaves, engaging the attention of other leeches, which tap back, in synchrony. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It appeared that they had engaged in fresh conspiracies from the very moment of their release. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Many of them were engaged in shouted conversation with inmates down on the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We are forbidden to engage in any combative exercise with another tribute. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There are often fewer and fewer opportunities for children to actively engage in music making themselves. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Yes, and I hope to engage you to be serious likewise.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z But sometimes he achieved his ends by engaging in a dialogue instead of simply saying no. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Several months ago the affiliate here in Birmingham asked us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct-action program if such were deemed necessary. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On every hand there is evidence that those engaged in spraying operations exercise a ruthless power. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If you can create the right framework, all of a sudden, engaging in the kind of fluid, effortless, spur-of-the-moment dialogue that makes for good improv theater becomes a lot easier. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Protective worrying, engaging with another’s mind as one entered it, taking the dominant role as one guided another’s fate, was hardly mental freedom. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And then, despite his initial prickliness, the young man warmed to the old-timer, and the two engaged in a long conversation. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My attempts to engage him in conversation went nowhere. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “You will have Pickett’s Division. But I think you are right about the flank. Leave Hood and McLaws where they are. I will give you Heth’s Division. It was not engaged yesterday. And Pender’s.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Shin did not have the awareness, the money, or the contacts to use smuggling networks, and he certainly did not have anyone outside the country to engage professionals on his behalf. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And then Jason showed the meanness that was in him, brilliant hero though he had seemed to be: he engaged himself to marry the daughter of the King of Corinth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We had engaged in a subtle battle of which I think he had only then become aware. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Cleopatra sent her soldiers to guard strongholds on Egypt’s borders, expecting Mark Antony’s troops to engage Octavian on land, but Mark Antony no longer had an army. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The enemy is engaged in making war in this country, transmitting news to Berlin, and spreading propaganda and lies about the condition and morale of American military forces. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z There is nothing unfamiliar about this; indeed, we’ve been engaged in a coordinated national effort for over two decades, through the established processes of the National Institutes of Health. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Noah, I used to live with the man. We were engaged to be married, for God’s sake,” she said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Each time a police officer engages us, death, injury, maiming is possible. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It is almost always possible to present an intellectually honest and engaging account of any field, using a minimum of technical apparatus. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore glasses, kept his full lips pursed as though he were engaged in perpetual thought. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He nodded to the man and took the five, letting his eyes smile, since his mouth was engaged in blowing and drawing. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z And yet at the very same time he was happily engaged in using the new astronomy to predict the weather and to decide when doctors should bleed their patients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Either Kubat was engaging in wishful thinking or the statement was just a public relations smoke screen to give the match more credibility. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z How could anything that called itself the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” engage in wholesale murder? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Since when do children get engaged? You’d better look around a little. There are other fish in the sea.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I also find that he has spoken on behalf of the abolition of capital punishment and contributed generously to research institutions engaged in criminal neurophysiology. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Well, they were all deeply engaged and competitive, and all with the exception of Drave were also hard at work—though, to be fair, this wasn’t his fault. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Nor, apparently, was the ground a safer place to have remained, for there Kate was engaged in a furious struggle. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Then he rose—his smile was as engaging as ever. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z And like Angel told me, I say something else to “engage” them. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z They had sought the advice of every medical expert in the greater Cleveland area—including the best fertility doctors at the Cleveland Clinic—and then engaged the most reputable adoption agency in the state. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z What if he’d just come back from France, or Japan, sleepless with ideas, only to find that he’d been engaged to some sweet country miss? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, the fighting Lilya engaged in was so fierce, and her plane was shot up so badly, that she had to parachute to safety. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The taxi rounded the statue of the inventor of the semaphore engaged in doing same, and turned up the Boulevard Raspail, and I sat back to let that part of the ride pass. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z But he’s engaged in some sort of intense handshake thing with Nuah and misses the opportunity. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z You would have seen the two of us engaging in what can only be described as an elaborate and precise dance. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes denied that he and Julia had ever engaged each other physically, or that she had undergone “a criminal operation,” a then-current euphemism for abortion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Her fingers were cold where they gripped the reins, and though she rode beside Con, who had been trying all morning to engage her in conversation, she felt alone. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The other young males kept bothering Mushie, and like rowdy teens they engaged in some good-natured jostling, ending in all- out wrestling. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Except for the engaging part, because I didn't exactly know what she meant by core muscles. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z There, resting on a mound of blanket rolls, is a silver sheath of arrows and a bow, already strung, just waiting to be engaged. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z As long as you’re sitting out there pretending to be engaged to somebody, you might as well pass the time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In general, societies that engaged in intense exchanges of crops, livestock, and technologies related to food production were more likely to become involved in other exchanges as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For decades, black elites engaged in private rescue efforts to make black communities tidy, clean, and respectable in a futile effort to gain white approval. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She spent a year there, during which she engaged in a letter-writing campaign to the Chicago Tribune newspaper that so embarrassed Robert, he had her released. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z After a chaste romance—“I didn’t kiss her until I asked her to marry me,” he said—he became engaged to a missionary colleague, Liz Chalmers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It was his nurse—not from the hospital, but one that his mother had privately engaged. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In previous centuries trade focused on symbolic goods that directly engaged the king, such as jewelry for the royal family. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Larger office space was acquired and more staff were engaged. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z My ship’s cloaking device was already engaged, and I left it activated when I set the Vonnegut down on one of the Tyrell Building’s landing pads. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To find the mass of the mountain from all these numbers required a great deal of tedious calculating, for which a mathematician named Charles Hutton was engaged. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Kaede curled her fingers around the grip again, and this time, she felt the core of her belly engaged in the movement of her arm. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A small group of Hitler Youth also engaged in sabotage behind Allied lines. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The various consequences of this infirmity—as manifested in architecture, furniture, etc.—have never managed to engage my attention. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps I just wanted to engage them in small talk, to be assured of their confidence, our familiarity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He enjoyed the work: it was challenging enough to engage his mind, but not so challenging as to distract him from his physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He loved his son, and Kermit had his whole life ahead of him and was engaged to be married. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z It was as if they were engaged in a secret ritual. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My heart rate finally elevated slightly above somber territory as we engaged in a heated debate over which came first, the chicken or the egg. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z As we walked, he engaged us in conversation. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z If I didn’t stay engaged with my present, I wouldn’t be able to continue. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We selected them as the most immediate burden pressing on the lives of the people, and the best way to engage the greatest number of people in the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The good soldier will always engage the enemy and retreat only if retreat will lead to victory.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Although Marina’s aviators were excited to be finally engaged in combat, most people weren’t rushing to defend their Motherland with the same energy and passion they’d felt the year before. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z "Don't engage," Starry tells me in a low voice. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The mattress was part way off the bed, as if he had been engaged in the night in some scuffle with intruders. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z To suffer her to engage herself—to suffer her even to think of such a measure!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Attempts by Regina and Joan to engage Bobby in school work were usually fruitless. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I have his arrows now, a loaded bow, and Finnick at my back, breathing hard but not actively engaged. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z A charismatic AU junior named Bill was the treasurer of OASATAU, and two months after they met early in the exciting whirlwind of her freshman year, Joy was engaged to marry him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “I did not wish to disturb you, as you seemed engaged, sir.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He began to suspect that his friends might indeed be correct in believing that Holmes and Julia were engaged in an illicit affair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Eluding Jordan's undergraduate who was now engaged in an obstetrical conversation with two chorus girls, and who implored me to join him, I went inside. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “As soon as I got together with Patricia, got engaged and married, what I had to lose grew very much worse,” he later said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His face turned in my direction, and as the huge truck roared past, he engaged the brakes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z After the show, the two would engage in a New York City ritual. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Although battle was to be engaged on the question of the existence of spirits, the assumption was that it was really the existence of God that was at stake. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This includes various tissues but most importantly those engaged in the production of blood. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The children watched as the clockwork gears and levers inside the man began to engage. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z I told the family emphatically that I was going to study medicine, engage in research, make discoveries. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked around the block three times, the cop pretending not to notice the hands that went up to hide smiles as the people saw a fully uniformed officer of the law so engaged. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z To ignore this science is to engage in self-deception, to tell ourselves a lie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He built his own laboratory, the first at Cambridge, but then engaged in the most bizarre experiments. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A week after Tessie became engaged, on a steamy Tuesday morning, Milton put his clarinet away for good and went down to Cadillac Square to exchange his Boy Scout uniform for another. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I returned at the time specified, and found him to be engaged still in lunging. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But no one comes because, in the end, this is my house, which means you don’t go out of your way to engage. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z When the marines had first arrived at Da Nang, the orders had been clear: “The U.S. Marine Force will not, repeat will not, engage in day-to-day actions against the Viet Cong.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And we all took the less explicable step of engaging the parlor of a suite in the Plaza Hotel. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Most of us were simply wrapped too tightly in the grip of summit fever to engage in thoughtful reflection about the death of someone in our midst. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Are they not engaging with the music or the questions? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, passed by Congress as part of the War on Drugs, called for strict lease enforcement and eviction of public housing tenants who engage in criminal activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Alex has always known his gay American history—after all, his parents’ politics have been part of it—but it wasn’t until he figured himself out that he started to engage with it like Henry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Yet the fact is that no animal other than Sapiens engages in trade, and all the Sapiens trade networks about which we have detailed evidence were based on fictions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And since then we’ve engaged in hair pulling, shouting matches, and ignoring each other—but we’ve never fought like this, never with live steel. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And by noon, many citizens engaged in various local enterprises were talking excitedly to each other about how feisty little Joe Mondragon had gone and diverted the water illegally into his parents’ no-account beanfield. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We know he was engaged in a lengthy search for the secret of how to turn base metal into gold; indeed, briefly in the 1580s, he thought he had found it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Other teachers report that the boy is modest, likable, and reasonably talented. Personally, I find him an engaging child.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z For the first time Jerome became aware of how directly I had been engaged in Civil Rights activities in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Conversely, any civilization that engages in serious interstellar exploration and colonization must have exercised zero population growth or something very close to it for many generations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I don't want to engage anymore—I want the phone call to be over. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Maskelyne and Mason had become friends eleven years earlier while engaged in a project to measure an astronomical event of great importance: the passage of the planet Venus across the face of the Sun. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Of course, they clearly engaged in some advanced planning. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The loneliness I have felt many mornings, however, has not made me forget that I am engaged in a highly public activity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Born in 1063 a.d., 8-Deer was a shirttail cousin to the ruling family of Tilantongo, which had been engaged for decades in a dynastic struggle with the kingdom of Red and White Bundle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I returning in my old white shirt, with my oznabrig and breeches in my hand, I found the two of them engaged in lively converse. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The impetus to engage in a certain kind of behavior is not coming from a certain kind of person but from a feature of the environment. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Didn’t you tell me Dale sang? When you were first engaged, Lee, I remember you said how beautiful his voice was.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z For some unknown reason, I was fearful of the place and wanted to turn back, but the sight, nearby, of shirtless, muscular impis engaged in mock fights using spears and knobkerries made me stay. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Years ago, before his time, potters in Ch’ulp’o had been engaged in the enormous task of making those very tiles. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I don’t know what caused the transformation, why suddenly I could engage with the great thinkers of the past, rather than revere them to the point of muteness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They bring us stories like Patrick the magician, engaging the top- down systems that want to find answers, complete tasks, follow narratives. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Sorrel went on: “They had orders not to engage, so they withdrew. General Hill thinks they were mistaken. He says it must be militia. He’s going back in force in the moming.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It fluttered the skirts of the two women and kept them for a while engaged in adjusting, readjusting, tucking in, securing hair-pins and hatpins. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Copernicus tells us that he engaged in a systematic programme of reading as he struggled with the formulation of his new astronomy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Few legal rules meaningfully constrain the police in the drug war, and enormous financial incentives have been granted to law enforcement to engage in mass drug arrests through military-style tactics. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Actually, maybe they were only engaged to be married. Anyway, one day she got fed up with Dusty and moved in with Lice.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Calpurnia,” Granddaddy called up the stairs, “will you come out to the laboratory with me? I require your assistance if you’re not otherwise engaged.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Through a grand arch lay a grander chamber beneath the central dome—a rotunda where hundreds of scythes greeted one another, engaging in casual conversation around an elaborate breakfast spread in the center. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “It’s inappropriate for a girl to invite a boy anywhere in this part of the world. They’ll think you’re engaged or something. They’ll think he’s a spy. How will I explain him?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They engaged in regular long-distance trade with Fiji and Samoa, established Tongan settlements in Fiji, and began to raid and conquer parts of Fiji. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “He had an engaging naivete about the East. He had never seen a skyscraper.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "I have a proposition," I tell him as he engages in another miracle of engineering—that of fastening his seat belt. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z They were engaged in “loud talking and objectionable deportment...in public places.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Gilbert’s On the Magnet takes us into a different world; indeed, he claims to be engaged in a new type of philosophizing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We had been engaged in a running debate about the appeal of communism to ordinary South Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Every so often, he felt the strange people’s eyes on him, wide and curious, but he didn’t engage. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z To balance the electrical repulsion, pieces of nuclear matter would have to be brought very dose together so that the short- range nuclear forces are engaged. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In short, she was quietly engaged in some of the finest insect work of her time. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Organisms are selected to engage in sex—the ones that find it uninteresting quickly become extinct. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He married and divorced repeatedly, gaining notoriety among gossip columnists for slugging one of his wives and engaging in public shouting matches with the others. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that Beverly, the second of Mr. Clutter’s surviving daughters, had married Mr. Vere Edward English, the young biology student to whom she had long been engaged. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other wall there was a mural showing Homer, Dante, Tolstoi, Balzac, and Shakespeare engaged in conversation. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z If there are significant differences in the surveys to be found, they frequently suggest that whites, particularly white youth, are more likely to engage in drug crime than people of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Todd engaged with him, but Zeitoun and Nasser chose to remain quiet. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The helium nuclei will be jammed together still more tightly, so much so that they begin to stick together, the hooks of their short-range nuclear forces becoming engaged despite the mutual electrical repulsion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The enemy was out there and there may have been nine of us and one hundred twenty-one of them, but there was no doubt in his mind that we had to engage them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Pah. Even the Scourge of the East would think twice about engaging both the Crux and the Current. He might even take out the Beauty and rid us of the competition.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z And then one evening I became engaged to marry him. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z “I must say, I hope our classes haven’t become as tedious as all that. Please tell Edmund that, should he choose to attend tomorrow, I shall make an effort to be especially engaging.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Since our evacuation of the town onto the ships and transports of this fleet, there has been little employment for us; and having nought to engage us, we spend much time sleeping. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The water turned to steam, drove out the air and forced the piston to the top of the cylinder, where a spring engaged a bolt. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Moments later, Augustus opened a door behind me and engaged in the complicated business of entering the backseat of a car with one leg. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Yet less than two years after Mrs. Leep left him, Leon surprised everyone by getting engaged to a woman he met at a celebrity pro-am golf tournament. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of these children develop criminal records for behavior that more affluent children engage in with impunity. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Ships pass to & from the Island Town bringing — we know not what — engaged in silent Errands. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They had talked several times but Ben was not important enough for them to become friends or for Philip to engage Ben in a truly serious conversation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d engaged with what felt like every last resident in the town of Butte. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There were people standing about in the rows of pews, some off to the side, nearly all of them engaged in some sort of conversation. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z "The letter engaging us? No, sir. I didn't keep it." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z We had been engaged in the armed struggle for more than two decades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He became so engaged in the work that he asked the federal judge he was clerking for after law school if he could cut short his two-year clerkship to join us in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She felt every muscle in her arm engage as she threw it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It occurred to me that Joan, hearing where I was, had engaged a room at the asylum on pretense, simply as a joke. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “He’s engaged to a very rich girl,” said Billy’s mother. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “A lot of my friends have boyfriends that they have known since high school, and they are engaged or already married, and I’m still single and I’m like—ahhhh.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Once upon a time, it was generally understood that the police could not stop and search someone without a warrant unless there was probable cause to believe that the individual was engaged in criminal activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There is little, I think, that engages my imagination like a wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t exactly been “fully engaged in the lesson,” as Mr. Bonner would say. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z They drew large crowds both because they offered a unique perspective as Southerners who had witnessed slavery firsthand, and because Angelina was an effective and engaging speaker. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Above all, experimentation began to engage directly with central claims made by Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One might imagine that the legal rules described thus far would provide more than enough latitude for the police to engage in an all-out, no-holds-barred war on drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Have no fear, my friend. We will arrange something. There is always one compartment—the No. 16, which is not engaged. The conductor sees to that!” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman had been a palace fixture since she’d been engaged as a wet nurse when Aurelia was born, and she had been interfering and even criticizing ever since. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The question was whether to engage Octavian on land or at sea. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “The tragedy is that we are today engaged in two wars and we are losing both,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Strings of flashing and traveling sparks engage the links of it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Trotter’s honey baby engaged in a life of crime. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z For some people, seeing my sisters and me actively engaged in sport was a challenge to their beliefs. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z When I had finished she told me without comment that she was engaged to another man. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The Mike device was based on the Teller-Ulam design and built by Los Alamos; Livermore, which at that time was fully engaged in “simply coming into being,” played no role whatsoever. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They’d also take fMRI, functional MRI images—so-called real-time MRI— which would measure blood flow changes as Reggie engaged in different behaviors. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The other boys were already engaged making shelves of their small hands and peering under them toward the seven-foot stone banks of the canal, watching for Martians. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a forceful, engaging woman whom I first met when I was studying at Wits, and her death revealed the extent of the state’s cruelty in combating our struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s using her, Jade. They’ve been engaged for, what, three years? That man is not marrying her. He is living off her.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He attempted to engage Hermione in conversation again, but she was too busy cheering Harry to listen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “My confidence in you has been seriously diminished since I heard about the disreputable activities in which you engaged on Thursday last. Please repeat.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if I could find a job that engaged my mind and still left me enough time to do volunteer work, or appreciate art, or have children. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She chanced a glance and saw her family and coven engaged in battle with the Cursed Toads. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The only thing, Minerva adds, real breezy and smart the way she can be so cool, is the poor man’s already engaged to somebody else. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The women who observed your training earlier today. Grace and Patience Edgar and their mother, Wilhelmina Edgar. They’re newly arrived from the Charleston Compound and were interested in engaging a couple of Attendants.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Here and there they sat under the trees, lost in meditation or engaged in spirited talk. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z After she reads my chart and talks to the nurses, she goes back downstairs to my family, who have stopped talking in hushed tones and are now all engaged in solitary activities. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "We've only been here just under a week, sir, my wife and I. We were engaged by letter, through an agency. The Regina Agency in Plymouth." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Lee said, “No need for hurry now. General Ewell is engaged. General Meade has made a move. 1 must confess, I did not expect it.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At his urging, the Royal Society agreed to engage a reliable figure to tour the British Isles to see if such a mountain could be found. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In fact, things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl, Jane Wilde. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They were prepared to erect barricades overnight and engage the police with weapons and whatever came to hand the next day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I say “we,” but I was still trying to take Coach’s advice and ignore all distractions, so when it came up, I tried not to engage. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It’s been a few years since I engaged in urban highway driving, and I give myself high grades for fearless and agile navigation, but eventually the afternoon traffic defeats me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt I was dealing fate a serious blow by engaging such a handsome adversary. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Excepting the girl he was engaged to, back home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z No medieval natural philosopher had a view of natural science as making progress, and no medieval natural philosopher was engaged in research, if we understand that to mean the gathering of relevant new information. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She was desperate to be an engaged parent, 180 degrees of difference from how she felt her parents treated her. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Unlike my mother, Malcolm engaged with us so intensely that after a few minutes of contact with my father, I felt invaded to the core. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z There was such friendliness and charm in his eyes, such boyish eagerness to engage her, that she could only go along. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “It does. It sucks when parents aren’t fully engaged in your stuff, even if it’s so much better than hovering parents.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “The inimitable Locke,” he answered, “saith that mankind is engaged in perpetual uneasiness, and that it is lack which motivates us forward. In our desires, we resemble the action of a two-legged table.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We brought them Water, too; sensible that soon, they would be engaged in Mortal Battle, & would greatly desire even one Drop of what now flowed in Profusion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His work was complex: it engaged his mind and imagination. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Three years before, I was engaged in the same manner and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart and filled it for ever with the bitterest remorse. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z The families of weaver ants engage in child labor, holding their larvae like shuttles to spin out the thread that sews the leaves together for their fungus gardens. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve been trying to get through all the evening. Twice it was engaged.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I have fought battles I should not have engaged in, and walked away from causes that needed and deserved a champion. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “He asked me to marry him. We were engaged.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Completely unarmed, the Florentines engaged ten thousand French soldiers to take Pisa: such a plan endangered them more than any of their previous predicaments. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I don’t engage them, because there’s nothing to say. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I’d stopped using the word fascinated to describe the way he engaged with me and my life, because the pejorative iteration of the word no longer seemed fair. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now engaged in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak dictionary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z For some in my chalk, this was the first genuine military activity they would engage in. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The children were engaged in a whispered debate. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z His beaming grin was that of a happy child who wanted to be liked, or at least to be engaging. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They appeared to be engaged in polite conversation, and Nehemia’s guards stood to the side of the dais, already looking bored. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Violent crime cripples the black community and does no favors to those who engage in it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The kids in the classroom were smart and engaged, and the kids in the playground were well-behaved. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z A slight refinement must therefore be made in the index, by considering only those people who are likely to engage in the activity in question. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She read a letter from her sister, who was away in the East and who had engaged herself to be married. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally some living thing will engage her affections. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The combatants had hard work of it to avoid the embers of their small fire, engaged in their melee at its side—plates rattled beneath their heels and there were dim cries of pain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Miss Bingley’s attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy’s progress through his book, as in reading her own; and she was perpetually either making some enquiry, or looking at his page. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z But he was not alone in his belief that the Soviets were engaged in foul play inside the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For an instant, the coyote pulled back, seeming surprised that the small fox was engaging him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z But Briony, engaged in a shrill response to her brother's suggestion, writhed in his arms and turned her face from her sister and half buried it in Leon's jacket. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Outside the church after dinner, many migrants engage in a crude kind of street therapy: Who has endured the worst riding the trains? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “It’s Larry. I mean, he knows that you and I are engaged, but he’s already made two passes at me tonight.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer could no more divest himself of political concerns than he could give up music and wine; they were all essential to his method of engaging with the outside world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The relevant question is not whether to engage in reform work, but how. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z During the moonlit January nights Singer continued to walk about the streets of the town each evening when he was not engaged. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When people are engaged in something they are not proud of, they do not welcome witnesses. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I arrived back at our own camp to find Rob, Dr. Caroline Mackenzie, and Scott Fischer’s doctor, Ingrid Hunt, engaged in a tense radio conversation with someone higher on the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z His best chance of doing so is to engage the public’s emotions, for emotion is the enemy of rational argument. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Maids in waiting and my mother passed it from hand to hand, admiring it, engaging they would buy it. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z With a dog or horse or badger or fox every fiber of his being was totally engaged. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We were engaged in a vicious battle of the wills! Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Only the Dean’s threat of immediate expulsion prevented me from engaging in a fistfight that day. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z But he must have sensed that engaging in one illegality sort of loosened other holds on Dedd. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Satyrs were more helpful, more engaged with demigod affairs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The Silent Sentinels engaged in nonviolent protest: Instead of fighting with weapons, Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party fought with words and images. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The engineer in the pit released the brake and engaged the drive gears. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Cora tried to engage him, asking after the place he fled, the business of working cane, how he took flight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “That means that Ms. Prior engages in very little reward-seeking behavior.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I engaged the Vonnegut’s autopilot, then activated my Ring of Teleportation by speaking the command word, “Brundell.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Hans Muller was a white estate agent who did business with Mr. Sidelsky and would engage me in discussion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The three men have a brief yet engaging conversation about clocks and the nature of time before Mr. A. H— makes a polite excuse and fades into the background again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The radio swung into an old song that dated back to the time when he and Alice were engaged. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “You’ll be up over the ridge and take them in the rear. When you are heavily engaged, Ewell will take them in front.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If he had been considered generous, the present King of Spain would not have engaged in or successfully carried out so many enterprises. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I started doing my own research and talking to the African American girls at school, engaging in conversations with them at lunch. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Mr. Blakeslee, I was once engaged to marry Mr. McAllister. He had that saddle made for me. It was his engagement present.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When I told her that I must go at once, and that I was engaged on important business, she asked again: Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z One moment she is actively engaged in the conversation, her laugh echoing her sister’s, and the next she seems distant, staring through the dripping candles. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The government was then engaged in a massive effort to make a success of its separate development policy, and “quasi-independent” homelands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They are, despite their efforts at dignity, rather like young animals engaged in savage play. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The prosecution also engaged in disparate questioning of jurors based on race—practices that seemed linked to the jury-selection manual. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Should not engage in any strenuous activity or operate heavy machinery. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The story of Shotgun Cheatham’s last night above ground kept The Coffee Pot Cafe fully engaged for the rest of our visit ihat summer. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z So, the highest of all our complex technologies in the hardest of our sciences will soon be engaged, full scale, in what is essentially biologic research—and with some aspects of social science, at that. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Anthony remained devoted to her friend and encouraged her to remain engaged with the temperance and suffrage movements. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z "Go on with your story. You were engaged, as you say, by letter." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The Criminal Element said that it was a good idea to engage in relentless, open-ended questioning. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z They engaged a powerful affinity with their habitat and their food chain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The mere fact that the government was engaged in negotiations at all was a sign that they did not have the strength to sustain apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, too, they talked of engaging in active rebellion against the Party, but with no notion of how to take the first step. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z All the planets orbit the Sun, the nearest star, an inferno of hydrogen and helium gas engaged in thermonuclear reactions, flooding the solar system with light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Today it is no longer necessary for the police to have any reason to believe that people are engaged in criminal activity or actually dangerous to stop and search them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was an engaging fellow, a champion stick-fighter and a glamour boy, whose many girlfriends kept us all supplied with delicacies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But when she tried to engage him in conversation he seemed uninterested, taking my hand and backing away, his gestures saying, “Thanks, but no thanks.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z From now onwards Animal Farm would engage in trade with the neighbouring farms: not, of course, for any commercial purpose, but simply in order to obtain certain materials which were urgently necessary. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “She called me up and said she’d gotten engaged to someone else.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Couldn’t they have said they were already engaged? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I was trying not to engage with him anymore, because I didn’t want to give him the wrong idea. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Finally the news came that Theresa was engaged, to a Shanghai banker’s son. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The restlessness that disturbed Christine’s home state in the form of student protests in Greensboro would follow her, and engage her, at Hampton Institute. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He glanced over at Daddy, but he was engaged in a conversation with a neighbor and wasn’t listening to us. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Only in the 1950’s did their study become an exciting and fruitful field of research; suddenly they began to engage so much attention that 1000 papers on this subject alone appeared within a five-year period. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But he did not engage the jackdaws and Hazel saw him pick up another carrot and start back with it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I can be engaged by the arc of the water in a sprinkler system. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z None could equate this engaging young man with the stereotypical aged, graybearded laboratory scientist of their fancies. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I kept an eye on Judge Norton to make sure he was still engaged, and he seemed visibly affected by the proceedings. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z What Brunelleschi had discovered was not the vanishing-point or the distance-point construction; he had not engaged in elaborate measurements or sophisticated geometrical constructions, even if he had the competence to perform them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is one thing to consider them in theory, and quite another to engage in them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z However, much of the music in children’s lives is “unchosen,” in other words they are passive recipients in much of the music in their lives, and not actively engaged in its selection. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I only got engaged to save people’s lives, and that completely backfired. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t command troops or engage in formal diplomacy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Appreciating art is a gradual, never-ending endeavor, which is why art from all eras still engages and enriches us. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z It's heavy, made of iron, and when engaged, it holds the door properly shut. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z This was a signal that they were “engaged,” meaning they were currently on phone calls, browsing the Web, or logged into chat rooms. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Perform an energetic rhythm on a drum to engage children to move or prepare for a more rigorous physical transition. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z At roughly the same time that Woolf started his potentially deadly gamble, Pollard engaged in a gamble of his own. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When he’s bored at home, there are plenty of books to read, and his parents see it as their responsibility to keep him actively engaged in the world around him. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Expecting to engage with Octavian, Mark Antony needed to pull his army and navy together. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In support of my personal belief that real life doesn’t live up to writing about it, the members of my family seem to have spent most of their time that year engaged in correspondence. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That made it difficult for the Lakota and Cheyenne to engage them in battle. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He was always meeting one of them—crawling naked on a floor or engaged in a game of marbles or even on a dark street with his arms around a girl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Their digital world is much more vital, colorful, and engaging than their educational one. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Her friends must all be sorry to lose her; and will not Colonel and Mrs. Campbell be sorry to find that she has engaged herself before their return?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z All through the daylight hours, mobs of whites and blacks engaged in pitched battles throughout the city. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was especially active during the oral argument, asking me lots of questions about the propriety of correctional staff engaging in medical procedures. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He moved his ships forward to engage in battle, confident that size and might would enable them to overcome Octavian’s smaller ships. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The game not only engaged Bobby’s mind, it tempered his loneliness, and while playing, he felt more alive. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Without the help of the Internet or dating apps, most people back then met their future spouses through family or mutual friends, but months of courtship usually followed before getting engaged. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I fear now that I failed to engage her; that I was too sallow a character. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “They are engaged to protect our property, you understand?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Families engaged in at least one fun event a week, like going to a movie or bowling. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “She had engaged to go as governess to Mrs. Smallridge’s children—a dear friend of Mrs. Elton’s—a neighbour of Maple Grove; and, by the bye, I wonder how Mrs. Elton bears the disappointment?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z She held her hand there, allowing some of the spirits to flow through her into the paintings, making sure they had enough time to fully engage. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Standing on the platform was the man who had once been engaged to my mother and who, at my father’s hands, had had her stolen away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A reticence broken only by her secret, droopy smiles and the furtive, apologetic looks she cast my way when the general’s attention was engaged elsewhere. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Incompetence over Ferrara, insubordination, refusal to engage the enemy in combat when ordered to do so, and desertion.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A quarter to a third of the adult urban population is engaged fulltime in the nurture and education of the children. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A substantial number of the remaining 98 per cent were engaged in research on chemical insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When people were within earshot, they engaged in first- or second-date conversations, making up past histories for themselves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He found himself engaged again, word for word, gesture for gesture, in the argument with his daughter with which this tale began. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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