transfix

Example Sentences

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Director Andrew Russell trusts Porkalob’s ability to transfix an audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

The sequences are designed to transfix human viewers yet proceed without them.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2023

A sign of her charisma is that during the final tableau, as Aida and Radamès are expiring in the tomb, Amneris continues to transfix the attention: even when she isn’t singing, she dominates the stage.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 4, 2018

Great singers can stand in front of a painted scrim and transfix a cash-paying full house night after night.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2017

The changing patterns of light transfix my sight.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein