Sentence examples for both were engaged in from inspiring English sources

Both were engaged in impressive creative endeavors.

Both were engaged in e-mail correspondence with someone they thought was a 14-year-old boy but was actually a Westchester investigator.

Blair and Clarke met on a dull day in Newport, where both were engaged in the 'big conversation' event, and agreed the arithmetic was looking awful.

An experiment showed web novices' brains changing in response to internet use, but it also showed "no significant difference in brain activity" between the novices and a web-savvy control group when both were engaged in "a simulation of book reading".

Both were engaged in the Korean War and are still allies of North Korea.

In a textbook illustration of the conflict of interest between Facebook and Google's ostensible dedication to free speech and their ostensible espousal of progressive values, the internet giants reportedly took millions in advertising money from a major anti-immigration group at the same time as both were engaged in pro-immigration advocacy.

Both are engaged in unequivocal political crimes.

Both are engaged in quests and consciously writing their own narratives.

Certainly, both are engaged in the service of a creative imagination that reflects powerfully the frustrating limits placed on individual desire by society's conventions and constraints.

Both are engaged in battles against militants — Israel against Hamas and other Palestinian groups, Turkey against Kurdish separatists unimpressed by Mr. Erdogan's moves toward tolerance.

On Tuesday the fixture list favours neither City nor Liverpool as, with Kenny Dalglish's side at Chelsea, both are engaged in Carling Cup quarter-finals in the capital, having barely had time to draw breath following their exertions on Sunday.