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Transfixed, millions of people stayed home from work to watch the broadcasts; the debates broke new ground in freedom of speech.
From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022
Transfixed by the image of a cornfield sitting where there had been none, a group of onlookers gathered where the old country road had been sheared off in the mud flows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2018
Transfixed by Watergate hearings as a child, Colbert was indifferent to Gerald Ford, though he enjoyed the jokes about him in Mad magazine, and, like so many at the time, "casually hostile" to Jimmy Carter.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2018
Transfixed, he sells his bike to buy a scanner and cheap camera, and he’s off.
From Washington Times • Oct. 29, 2014
Transfixed by fear, I stood rooted to the spot.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
Vocabulary lists containing transfixed
The Crucible
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"The Crucible" -- Vocabulary from all 4 Acts
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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