Example sentences for: engrossing

How can you use “engrossing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Dearborn casts a cool eye on Mailer's attention-getting tactics (he suggested that soldiers in Vietnam should only kill people they were willing to eat), his drunken outbursts, his wife-stabbing episode, and delivers what critics agree is an evenhanded, engrossing, "crisply written" (Sven Birkerts, Esquire ) book that will prove difficult for Mailer's official biographer to follow.

  • From the pavilion at the southern tip there is an engrossing view of sampans, barge trains, and passenger ships.

  • More plaudits for Margaret Atwood's Victorian thriller Alias Grace: In the New York Times Book Review , Francine Prose compares the book to a 19 th -century novel, because of its "spooky plot twists" and "engrossing narrative."

  • Snorkeling can be an engrossing activity, particularly off the rocky, indented stretch of coast beyond Nerja.

  • USAT continues to lead the way on the engrossing switched-at-birth tale.


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