I have never engaged in the drug trade. [VERB + in]
They never learned skills to engage the attention of the others. [VERB noun]
Authors engage adolescents with survival literature.
I try to engage the reader on a 'gut' level.
They tried to engage him in conversation. [VERB noun + in]
She found it hard to engage with office life. [VERB + with]
We engaged the services of a recognised engineer. [VERB noun]
Press the lever until you hear the catch engage. [VERB]
It could engage the enemy beyond the range of hostile torpedoes. [VERB noun]
engage a room
Her innocence engaged him
He engages in many sports
He engaged the clutch
He is engaged to Ann
To engage a lawyer
To engage a hotel room
To engage him in conversation
Reading engages his spare time
engage the gears
To engage to do something
To engage in dramatics
~ the clutch
Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage. the difficult task of engaging him in conversationGood nature engages everybody to him.
A favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy
For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks. They were engaged last month! They're planning to have the wedding next year. Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage.
Whenever I engage the clutch, the car stalls out. The teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another.
