How to Use engagement in a Sentence

engagement

noun
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  • We have a dinner engagement this weekend.
  • The couple recently announced their engagement.
  • She surprised everyone by breaking off her yearlong engagement.
  • She's been offered several speaking engagements.
  • Those are the kinds of engagements that need to happen.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The groom paid for the bride’s engagement ring, wedding ring, and groomsmen gifts.
    — Priya Rao, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The pandemic meant a long engagement, but the two didn’t mind.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2022
  • This is the start of a long-term engagement which stands to benefit you both over the coming years.
    — Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
  • And if that Alexa engagement brings you to Prime Video, that’s all the better for Amazon.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2023
  • PwC suspended engagement with the CBI and is not taking part in the vote.
    — Sabah Meddings, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
  • In 1943, the Germans blew up the dam again, trying to slow the Soviet advance in the Battle of the Dnipro, one of the largest engagements of the war.
    — Nicole Tung Marc Santora, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • Over the years, one method—the employee engagement survey—emerged as a durable tool.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 12 July 2023
  • Gurriel then spent a few moments searching the grass for the engagement ring, which he was concerned had popped out of the box.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The days where fashion was all about beauty and not about product and engagements.
    — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 19 Aug. 2024
  • What's more, the show left fans' jaws on the floor, thanks to an era full of engagements and life-threatening emergencies.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 30 May 2023
  • All these changes have been paying off in terms of user engagement.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The first was a close-up of them embracing on the beach, with Champion's engagement ring front and center.
    — Vogue, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Their engagement was announced Sept. 4 on the Facebook page of his Pure Hank radio show.
    — Angela Wilson, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The 12 custom chatbots with the most engagement are spotlighted in the GPT Store’s trending list.
    — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Prior to their engagement, the singers were having a whirlwind year as a couple.
    — USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • There are so many rules of engagement that just didn’t apply in a different era.
    — Vulture, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Johnson worked with Miller to arrange speaking engagements for the past 11 years.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Rex Buckley, her fiancé, held up her left hand to show her engagement ring.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2023
  • The pair announced their engagement in May 2021 after one month of dating.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
  • To help square that circle, share of engagement aims to shift brand focus from output to input.
    — Lou Hong, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • India also has to make up for its decision over the past decade to scale back its engagement with the global South.
    — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Photos from the day of engagements show Kate chatting with people on the street and taking selfies with them.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2023
  • In late April, Matt shared his engagement to Caryn Chandler after six years of dating.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 7 May 2023
  • In March, rumors spread of Martin’s engagement to longtime partner Dakota Johnson; of late, tabloids have been floating the idea that the relationship has cooled.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2024
  • A week later, Google reported that searches for marquise engagement rings were at an all-time high, surpassing round cuts for the first time ever—long the most popular cut for couples.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024

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