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be engrossed by
verb as in devour
Strong matches
Example Sentences
“That’s what we want to do — tell stories for people to be engrossed by and if they are engrossed, then job done.”
"We've created this world in which it's so fascinating to sit and do things. You can be engrossed by TV or scroll on your Instagram for hours. But sitting all the time isn't the way we were meant to be as humans, and we could reverse all of that culturally just by not being so attracted to all the things that we do while sitting."
Shafak’s work has spread around the world despite this attempted censorship, but it hasn’t yet reached all its potential American audience — those many readers who might be engrossed by Shafak’s unflinching fiction that explores gender, abuse and political repression.
At least we don’t struggle to be engrossed by 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I survived the comedy club by pretending to be engrossed by every stand-up who crossed that stage.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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