Engages

Examples

• In following the final assembly line from the point where the chain conveyor engages the frame and axles, the visitor is impressed with the dispatch with which every movement is executed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Returning now to the fourth pinion, we see that it also carries a wheel, which engages another little pinion, called the escape pinion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This screw engages with a second and similar screw which is so arranged as to move the strip of vulcanite up or down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This circumstance seems to me remarkable, and engages my attention for a moment. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He engages, through his imagination, in a shared activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Whatever is important engages our attention, fixes our thought, and is contemplated with satisfaction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The interest, which we have in any game, engages our attention, without which we can have no enjoyment, either in that or in any other action. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The less this knowledge has to do with practical affairs, with making or producing, the more adequately it engages intelligence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It cumbers your lap, and I want it for my head; it engages your eyes, and I want them for a book. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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