The showmen guilty of the deed were many, many miles away by that time, engaged in other similar occupations.

Huck was silent for some time, engaged in a mental struggle.

Here, dancers move as unadorned bodies through time and space, engaged with the music.

I made it at the time 52 out of fewer than 200 actually engaged.

Behind the company's philosophy is the belief in the social and developmental benefits of playing offline games while spending less time engaged with electronic devices.

As time passed, they spent more time engaged in passionate embrace than in conversation.

Mr. Spain found many difficulties put in his path, and was a long time engaged upon his complicated work.

By contrast, nonworking women spend half their extra time engaged in household work and child care.

And one could spend quite a long time engaged in these pleasant occupations without any guilty feeling that it was one's duty to hurry back.

My daughter, gentlemen, has... for some time been engaged in certain activities.