Sentence examples for down engaged from inspiring English sources

At a meeting with the president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Sarkozy started talking before staff could sit down, "engaged in no small talk and the meeting was over in minutes, to the bewilderment of his visitors".

Made from abandoned sets for the television show "Bonanza," the installation includes an artificial forest with a pair of motorized, fiberglass male figures hidden in the foliage, pants pulled down, engaging in lewd behavior.

Mostly, though, as Peter Ackroyd observed in his life-loving London: The Biography, "despite violent acts inspired by demagoguery and financial panic, the immigrant communities of the city have generally been permitted to settle down, engage with their neighbours in trade, adopt English as their native language, intermarry and bring up their children as Londoners".

People hang rudimentary signs on trees or around their necks and stroll up and down engaging in hushed conversations with potential buyers.

You want someone to sit down, engage and really listen to what you have to say.

My friend was on the line about halfway down, engaging some new friends in a Prince singalong.

The challenge is to get beyond the stare down; engage in open and creative problem solving; and not let the game of chicken continue indefinitely.

Some found physical actions helpful such as lying down, engaging in physical therapy, or focused attention on muscle-relaxing exercise, or, they avoided sexual intercourse altogether.

It means putting your phone down, engaging with your body language, having showered in the recent past, and just grounding yourself in the moment.

Hanks was in the middle of reading "Moby-Dick" and, when the filmmakers sat down, he engaged them in a discussion of Melville's masterpiece.

Here's how Katharine proposes we approach election day: Eyes wide open, scepticism dialled up, cynicism dialled down, heart engaged, mind engaged, calling out crap wherever we see it.