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.
  • That’s on top of engagement that has been through the roof.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Those are the kinds of engagements that need to happen.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2023
  • My engagement to Judith, in 1983, was when things came to a head.
    — John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The news comes on the heels of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement rumors.
    — Caroline Bell, StyleCaster, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Some of the brand tweets racked up massive engagement for the accounts.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Here’s the key: Mabel and Charles find an engagement ring on the roof, which signals hope to them.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The groom paid for the bride’s engagement ring, wedding ring, and groomsmen gifts.
    — Priya Rao, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The pandemic meant a long engagement, but the two didn’t mind.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2022
  • This is the start of a long-term engagement which stands to benefit you both over the coming years.
    — Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
  • And if that Alexa engagement brings you to Prime Video, that’s all the better for Amazon.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2023
  • PwC suspended engagement with the CBI and is not taking part in the vote.
    — Sabah Meddings, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
  • In 1943, the Germans blew up the dam again, trying to slow the Soviet advance in the Battle of the Dnipro, one of the largest engagements of the war.
    — Nicole Tung Marc Santora, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • The engagement fell apart after a month, and Pound set sail for Europe.
    — Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Over the years, one method—the employee engagement survey—emerged as a durable tool.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 12 July 2023
  • Her engagement to May, made in front of both their families, was also shown on the episode.
    — Chris Jordan, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Decades ago, the world's heart broke when Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez called off their engagement.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 July 2022
  • Gurriel then spent a few moments searching the grass for the engagement ring, which he was concerned had popped out of the box.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The days where fashion was all about beauty and not about product and engagements.
    — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Here is Kim’s engagement ring, a gift from her then-husband, then known as Kanye West, its stone as clear as glass and as big as a grape.
    — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 19 May 2025
  • What's more, the show left fans' jaws on the floor, thanks to an era full of engagements and life-threatening emergencies.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 30 May 2023
  • All these changes have been paying off in terms of user engagement.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Margaret announces the end of her engagement with Townsend.
    — Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The first was a close-up of them embracing on the beach, with Champion's engagement ring front and center.
    — Vogue, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The engagement of non-Western actors could move the needle.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
  • In its hundreds of nooks, there are still more books and scores of plants—a literally living record of struggle and thought and pure-minded engagement.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 30 May 2025
  • At the time, Geary shared details from the second engagement, including photos, on Instagram.
    — Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 30 May 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'engagement.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: