The thought came to me, how dead easy 'twould be for some girl to pretend she'd been engaged to Beckett, and win her wily way to the hearts and pockets of the old birds.
It began like this: "If I'd been engaged to him, I might have gone to his parents now.
If you'd been engaged to him since that day years ago, you certainly would have met.
There was simply the knowledge that the name of Sir Francis Geraldine had been used, and that it had been declared that she had been engaged to him.
How was she to tell her husband that she had been engaged to one whom he had described to her as a gambler and a swindler?
It was quite proper that he should learn that his wife had been engaged to the man whom he had so violently despised.
It would probably end in her marrying one of the men back home that she'd been engaged to off and on ever since she was fifteen.
She married Claude Millins, the man she's been engaged to off and on ever since she was a kid.
They've been engaged nearly a year, but Esther won't have it announced because she says it would spoil her good times wherever she goes.
Old Edouard declared that they had been engaged only to go to the big cache, and that their present trip was merely by way of a little excursion to see the river.
Thirty French and Indian guides had been engaged, and five days later the expedition, towed by the powerful motor launches, had started up the river toward the chain of lakes lying northwest toward Ungava.
The ten thousand Romans who were captured had not, as I said, been engaged in the actual battle; and the reason was this.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been engaged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
