Sentence examples for engagement strange from inspiring English sources

Once they announce their engagement, strange things… Louise Darling, 34, is divorced from her husband, Tiny, and lives in a rented farmhouse.

Once they announce their engagement, strange things begin to occur: the pastor, Farina Dorsey, makes a pass at her; at Kinney Shoes, she is persuaded somehow to buy wedding shoes that don't actually fit; and a local gambler, Larry Longhair, offers her a $10 wedding gift only to decide late later that it would be put to better use as a bet on a horse race.

There are curious tales here (the Perutz diet of blackened bananas), inspiring ones (his Alpine exploits), intriguing ones (the mechanical description of haemoglobin's active engagement with oxygen) and strange ones.

Starting out with theory (learning about compassion, its history and its value) leads on to taking a long hard look at ourselves (our smallness in the human chain) and then to an engagement with others, familiar and strange, close at hand and faraway.

Buying an engagement ring online feels like a strange thing to do.

The truth is that young people are deeply engaged in profound intellectual pursuits and literacy practices with their peers, even as there is a "strange absence of intellectual engagement in high schools".

After a long day of parties and social engagements, I was tired and in a strange mood.

It was strange for Mr. Blackston, too, because of the engagement ring he was carrying in his pocket.

Still, the usual placid surface of such stuff is at least regularly disrupted by an engagement with the continental tradition, and there are enjoyable passages about some strange Japanese research on water and the rhetoric of romantic arguments.

As hatred of women seems to replace love of cats as the Internet's primary trope, brands and businesses that have raced to place engagement resources into primarily digital platforms can suddenly find themselves with deeply unpleasant, strange bedfellows.

Beckett uses a strange ballet of banana consumption as a sort of comic curtain raiser, stirring us to engagement with this forbidding character.