riveted
Example Sentences
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“I find myself staring across the studio, for forty-three years now: her focus, always, in the moment, riveted upon her students.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026
"These bits here are the most impacted by rust," Petr told me, pointing at a nest of riveted joints and beams.
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has riveted the public with its futuristic architecture.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2025
Let’s replace Broadway with a bunch of rinks—and ask Stanley Cup hockey teams to send us all into the riveted rapture.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2025
And then, hearing his voice, I sat leaning forward, riveted upon his words.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
