engaging
adjective
en·gag·ing in-ˈgā-jiŋ 
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: tending to draw favorable attention or interest : attractive
an engaging smile
Examples of engaging in a Sentence
movie stars often have an engaging aura that is hard to describe a movie with an engaging story that will hold your interest for a couple of hours
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Bill Jones, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026 Join us for an engaging evening panel connecting students and local business leaders. —Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026 The subject of this engaging biography is the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who is often ridiculed as a faulty precursor to Darwin. —The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026 Landon and Keira are bright, engaging, and full of potential. —Mare Staff, Boston Herald, 19 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for engaging
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Bill Jones, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026 Join us for an engaging evening panel connecting students and local business leaders. —Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026 The subject of this engaging biography is the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who is often ridiculed as a faulty precursor to Darwin. —The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026 Landon and Keira are bright, engaging, and full of potential. —Mare Staff, Boston Herald, 19 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for engaging
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“Engaging.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/engaging. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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