The phrase "small engagement" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English in various contexts.
Example 1: After years of dating, John and Emily decided to have a small engagement party with their closest friends and family. Example 2: The company's CEO announced a new marketing strategy, which sparked a small engagement from the audience during the conference. Example 3: The group of students had a small engagement with the teacher during their class discussion on the topic of climate change.
The Battle of Mill Springs, a Union victory, was a relatively small engagement, but it held enormous significance for the Western Theater — and the war as a whole.
The decisive moment for his forces was a small engagement at Calatafimi, when he gave convincing proof that he could defeat the regular soldiers of the king of Naples's army.
Lady Thatcher (Meryl Streep) carefully counts out the coins, the rings that mark the conventional stages of married life, small engagement ring and narrow wedding band, now tight around her gnarled and wrinkled fingers.Back home she prepares breakfast for her husband, Denis Jim Broadbentt).
As the French approached, Pallas discharged her guns and a small engagement followed in which none of the ships incurred much damage.
He participated in the engagements at Frankfurt am Main and Hochheim and Siege of Mainz (1793), and a small engagement at Bingen.
Although a small engagement, this had a propaganda value far exceeding the importance of the battle itself, and Rupert became an heroic figure for many young men in the Royalist camp.
Much of his influence was through teaching and other forms of small-scale engagement with philosophers.
An amazing example of the kind of small-scale engagement that has the power to bring about big, lasting change.
The battle itself may have been only a series of small engagements, but after it there were no more great Muslim invasions of Frankish territory.
In three small engagements on the Meuse River (August 29 to 31), the Germans forced Mac-Mahon to fall back to the fortress at Sedan.
A self-taught singer, she began getting small engagements at various New York restaurants and clubs, working her way up to the Palace at 47th and Broadway, known as "the Valhalla of vaudeville houses".
