engrossed

Example Sentences

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"This is all dog content, when will the cat programme be on?" one person engrossed in the service wrote in the chatroom on PetTV's streaming page.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

For much of the summer, though, he was engrossed in something else.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

Said Palmer, engrossed in preparing the program for the last eight months: “It’s time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

People with no connection to the Post Office have told the BBC how they became engrossed watching the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2024

The scientific problem that engrossed Fisher also involved reconciling biology’s “mind” with its “eye.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee