spellbinding

Example Sentences

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Wu and Allen produced a session of spellbinding snooker and finished locked at 11-11 to perfectly set up the final session of their last-four meeting.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Shed your too-cool-for-school attitude, embrace the weirdness and Colonial Williamsburg can be spellbinding in a way a regular old museum can’t.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

But she eventually brushed herself down and stunned the onlooking crowd with her spellbinding third run, her coach bursting into tears at the realisation of what Choi had achieved.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

Like the rest of Rebecca Zlotowski’s spellbinding film, this bit of character work in “A Private Life” — or, in its original French, “Vie Privée” — keenly marries French filmmaking with American sensibilities.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

Perhaps it was Giannini’s urging, perhaps the example of Bing Crosby, who was investing heavily in racehorses, or maybe the spellbinding vision of the track their money had built.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand