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.
  • There are so many rules of engagement that just didn’t apply in a different era.
    — Vulture, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Next, determine where the majority of engagement is taking place.
    — Celia Fleischaker, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The limited 15-week engagement runs through Sunday, June 8.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Long hailed as a model of conscientious urban planning and civic engagement, Portland is facing a crisis of confidence.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Celebrities flooded Hudgens' comments to congratulate her on the engagement.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
  • That nugget of health advice became the top tweet, in terms of overall engagement, in the history of the FDA’s Twitter account.
    — Fiona Rutherford, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Record wagering and prop bets added to the engagement and excitement of the Big Game, and some of the most popular props and notable prop bets and players outcomes are provided below.
    — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Per Billboard, the Grammy winner was performing a 30-minute special Halloween engagement in Boston.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 1 Nov. 2024

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