engage

Example Sentences

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Though more engagé than restful, Menand’s “The Free World” is comparably diverting, even at the basement level of the weird factoid.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2021

But as with the title novella, the ironies here are deepened by our foreknowledge of the world that actually awaits the poet: laissez-faire where he wants to be engagé, iron-fisted where he would be free.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2021

This pronouncement has a nicely engagé ring to it—it’s certainly not detached—but it doesn’t entirely convince.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

The 32-year-old American illustrator is a cross between a photojournalist chasing hot spots and a 19th-century écrivain engagé who champions causes with art.

From Economist • Jan. 7, 2016

But there was no fireplace, for when the straits stood locked in ice and the island was deep in snow, no engagé claimed admission here.

From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell