Sentence examples for engaged a man from inspiring English sources

In 'Ruddygore', Sir Arthur had engaged a man to play the servant, my menial, so to speak, who had an enormous bass voice, and who had to go down to the lower E flat.

He felt that to do less would have been discourteous.Admirers will be glad to find proof, here and elsewhere in this book, that Davies was as modest and engaging a man as they had supposed.

So don't be afraid to make the first move, don't be afraid to engage a man in conversation.

My stepbrother engaged a young man with a round face and long, greasy hair — a character straight out of Dickens or Hrabal — to take pictures of our grief.

My stepbrother engaged a young man with a round face and long, greasy hair a character straight out of Dickens or Hrabal to take pictures of our grief.

On the day of her birth, her parents engaged an old man in Taiwan to tell her fortune.

The New Yorker, August 1 , 1942P. 34 Mr. & Mrs. Quintard engaged a young Harvard man as a tutor for their twins.

A decade later, when the Feds showed up, Kerman was engaged to a man and living a law-abiding life as a West Village creative-class yuppie.

He noted that his daughter is engaged to a man from England and will probably apply for a green card for him.

Now, she said, she is happily engaged to a man with "a swell job" who is the father of her third child, a 2-year-old boy.

When Fran told her mother that she was engaged to a man from Japan, "she said, 'They're the enemy,' " Fran remembered.