How to Use engagement in a Sentence

engagement

noun
  • 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.
  • But rules of engagement might mean more than any of that.
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2026
  • For all that, there’s no loss in engagement.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
  • What were the rules of engagement?
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • At the bottom of the stem of her glass was the engagement ring.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 30 July 2025
  • The denial is the bit and the bit is the engagement.
    — Taylor Reilly, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • The clip broke engagement records and sparked a massive surge in sales for the brand.
    — Zara Irshad, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Anything less, and the line on engagement won’t move.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • That’s not engagement—that’s triage.
    — Jason Walker Psyd, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Rules of engagement are part of that custom.
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Keeping users on longer means more engagement.
    — Dave Lieber mar. 5, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • All these changes have been paying off in terms of user engagement.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • This has to be engagement farming, right?
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
  • Millar reminds us that engagement in the process is the key.
    — Sarah Scott, Parents, 2 June 2026
  • Some of the brand tweets racked up massive engagement for the accounts.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Wang also seemed to sense that an engagement was coming.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But engagement isn’t just about how good someone looks on camera.
    — Abby Frank, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The pandemic meant a long engagement, but the two didn’t mind.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The groom paid for the bride’s engagement ring, wedding ring, and groomsmen gifts.
    — Priya Rao, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2023
  • And more engagement means more money.
    — Dave Lieber mar. 5, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • But so far, the engagement and transparency process hasn’t gone well.
    — Desiree Mathurin march 27, Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2026
  • It was built through direct engagement.
    — Jennifer Schenberg, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Rules of engagement protect civilians, or are meant to.
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Apart from that, there has been little direct engagement.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • There are so many rules of engagement that just didn’t apply in a different era.
    — Vulture, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The days where fashion was all about beauty and not about product and engagements.
    — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Her fiancé carved her engagement ring out of wood from a tree her parents planted when she was born.
    — Leanne Italie, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2022

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