- present participle of rivet.
riveting
Example Sentences
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But I will admit that Russel Crowe, Jacob Tremblay, and Shailene Woodley all deliver riveting performances.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
What follows is some of the most riveting and distressing testimony ever delivered in such a setting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
There’s nothing more riveting on stage than the truth, and here we have human beings in all their flagrant, unadorned and seemingly irreconcilable complications.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Alcaraz is tennis’s most captivating theater, a riveting positivity rocket of shot-making and court coverage who never seems to be out of any point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
But she looked quickly over my head as though there were something riveting at the back of the classroom, before turning back to face the front.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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