11 example sentences using engross.
Engross used in a sentence
Engross in a sentence as a verb
Laptops and keyboards engross users more than touch screens.
That is the case with Dead Space, a deeply engrossing world that just kinda... ends.
The engrossing of land, in effect, destroys this plenty and cheapness.
I've always been jealous of those that, for whatever reason, wholly engross themselves in a given field and are content with that.
Advertising should entertian, teach, engross, delight, the full spectrum of the human condition.
You have to always be working on a side project, always going to meetups, engross yourself in the geek culture in order to feel like you can do the job.
I used to do things like that years ago, but I've since found that the most effective thing is to engross yourself in what you really want done until you forget the distraction.
The engrossing of uncultivated land, besides, is the greatest obstruction to its improvement.
A problem I see is the massively overpowered tendency of the personal gains seekers and market winners and profit hunters to engross and harmfully misuse _everything_ for their gains.
Not only its value far exceeds what the capitals of a few private men are capable of purchasing, but, supposing they were capable of purchasing it, the manner in which it is produced renders this purchase practicable....Of land:Great tracts of uncultivated land were, in this manner, not only engrossed by particular families, but the possibility of their being divided again was as much as possible precluded for ever.
By combining not to take apprentices they can not only engross the employment, but reduce the whole manufacture into a sort of slavery to themselves....Of grain:[I]t is scarce possible, even by the violence of law, to establish such an extensive monopoly with regard to corn; and, wherever the law leaves the trade free, it is of all commodities the least liable to be engrossed or monopolized by the force of a few large capitals, which buy up the greater part of it.