riveting

How To Use riveting In A Sentence

• Richard Harris delivers a riveting portrayal of Captain Tyreen.
• It's even better when the story is riveting from the get-go and manages to ramp up the tension with each chapter. My Five: Books on my Unofficial Summer Reading List
• This building also repaired tenders in steam days; a much taller section of the roof allowed boilers to be stood on end for riveting.
• A bonded joint has very good shear strength, but not so good resistance to being pulled or torn apart; riveting is the familiar answer.
• Winter had been long months in riveting them, and not in a day were they to be broken, not even by the thunderbolt of spring. Chapter VIII
• Sornette's discussion of the science of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tornadoes and meteorite impacts is riveting.
• We veer between a rivetingly fresh reinvention of a myth and some clunkier contemporary confrontation and despair. Times, Sunday Times
• It has been a brilliantly written drama, riveting and full of twists and turns. The Sun
• Just as an aside, Perry Forde, despite nicotine withdrawals was in fine fettle and led her team to victory in a riveting match-up led by quizmaster Billy Varley who also had to make the supreme sacrifice.
• When it became clear that Frey had lied, she invited him back on her show and in what was riveting, headline-making television, she came after him with a fiery vengeance that she later regretted - so much so that, years later, in 2008, she called Frey to apologize. Now it's Oprah's moment