The invaders began to pay an awful toll in this their first real engagement.

He ran away from real emotional or psychic engagement.

Methuselah is said to be Shaw's only real engagement with science fiction.

The warriors hanging back behind the real engagement weren't well equipped anyway.

Not a real engagement, but the next thing to it.

This could be the first real engagement since he'd become Cap'n.

Only a real and serious engagement with the problems will be credible and effective in the long term.

The contrary - they want more real engagement with China.

But this, his first experience of a real engagement, would be a very different matter.

Thus it was that we had some very palpable hits, but no real engagements.