enthrallment

Example Sentences

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As an adult, I’ve tried to will myself back into enthrallment with this plucky heroine who repels a scary hobo, bravely goes without food and saves a poor Italian immigrant when others are against her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

So this idea that there’s nothing Congress can do without usurping judicial independence is also a form of enthrallment that we’ve succumbed to.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2023

It isn’t just Mary’s enthrallment to Vogel that “The Foundling” probes so well, but the way someone like Vogel can not only thrive under patriarchy but perpetuate it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2022

Even “O, o, o, o” becomes an occasion for enthrallment.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2020

The boy John was still staring into the fire, folded deep in the robe of enthrallment his mother had made.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth