riveted

It was nearly ten, but all this talk of lethal tar pits and strange illnesses had kept the children riveted.

Now it was his turn to be riveted.

Their small faces are riveted as he passes around a leaf from a California bay laurel tree.

As a legendary act of national healing, the broadcast riveted a shocked nation.

Let’s replace Broadway with a bunch of rinks—and ask Stanley Cup hockey teams to send us all into the riveted rapture.