The phrase "appeared engaged" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who seems to be involved or interested in a conversation or activity.
Example: "During the meeting, she appeared engaged, nodding and asking questions."
Alternatives: "seemed involved" or "looked attentive."
Most appeared engaged and seemed to feel free to say whatever they thought.
He said that he was still exploring possible solutions, and appeared engaged and thoughtful on the subject, if also a bit bemused.
The crackle of fighting resounded from the northeastern outskirts, the refugees said, and Taliban fighters appeared engaged in a desperate rear guard action to defend the longtime home of their leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar.
As in the first debate on Friday against her Republican challenger, John Spencer, a former mayor of Yonkers, Mrs. Clinton's poise bordered on the monochromatic: She offered no new big ideas about the future of New York, she appeared engaged and mostly unflappable, and she used language that fell somewhere between safe and scripted.
All three appeared engaged and respectful of each other.
The key is to appear engaged, at least until you're a year out.
But, though the show appears engaged with ideas about surveillance, the connection is mostly superficial.
He did, however, appear engaged, scribbling notes on pieces of paper that he then folded into quarters.
In a memo on March 6th she told George Bush that global warming was an important "credibility issue" for the United States, and that "we need to appear engaged".
And the whole book appears engaged in an identity-shifting feat of gamesmanship as it floats between two parallel worlds, neither of them fully corporeal.
We need to appear engaged and shift the discussion from the focus on the K-word to action, but we have to build some bonafides first".
