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Example sentences for "when engaged"

  • At the University he devoted himself to the study of classics, especially Latin, which in those days was the language adopted by men of learning, when engaged in writing works of a philosophical and scientific character.

  • When engaged in exploring the celestial regions with his telescope, Galileo observed a marked difference in the appearance of the fixed stars, as compared with that of the planets.

  • When engaged in road-work the Dhimars have unsewn sandals secured to the feet with strips of leather.

  • When engaged in the carrying trade, they usually lived in kuris or hamlets attached to such regular villages as had considerable tracts of waste land belonging to them.

  • When engaged in hunting in the forests during the day, the hunter will not unfrequently find it convenient to set either gun or bow traps for the purpose of destroying mischievous and roving night prowlers.

  • We were constantly in the habit, when engaged in making forced marches through Central India, of making use of the stalks of the recently cut juhari for this purpose.

  • When engaged in the labor of composition, he smokes one cigar--no more.

  • He finds that tobacco stimulates him to work, and, therefore, he uses it when engaged in literary production.

  • The Nayadis of Malabar, when engaged in catching rats in their holes, wear round the wrist a snake-shaped metal ring, to render them safe against snakes which may be concealed in the hole.

  • Their mode of procedure, when engaged in an enterprise of this sort, is evidenced by two cases, which had in them a strong element of savagery.

  • A Kumbara potter, when engaged in the manufacture of the pot or household deity for the Kurubas, should cover his mouth with a bandage, so that his breath may not defile it.

  • Thomas Scott, when engaged in writing his Commentary, used to solace himself with the belief that it might be of use at a period when the public worship of God would be no longer tolerated in the land.

  • When engaged, too, in erecting some fine building, he always experiences a degree of interest in marking the effect of the design developing itself piecemeal, and growing up under his hands; and so he rarely wearies of what he is doing.

  • When engaged in begging, they cut the skin of the thighs with the knife, lie down and beat their chests with the stone, vomit, roll in the dust or mud, and throw dirt at those who will not contribute alms.

  • When engaged in begging, they perform various contortionist and acrobatic feats.

  • And, when engaged in catching rats in their holes, they wear round the wrist a snake-shaped metal ring, to render them safe against snakes which may be concealed in the hole.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when engaged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    kind treatment; poor scholar; popular representation; procure rain; stand until; when about; when baked; when boiled; when death; when done; when eaten; when found; when full; when here; when informed; when only; when reduced; when standing; when the door opened; when their; when they saw him; when thou; when turned; when twenty; when using; when viewed