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transfixed

[ US /tɹænsˈfɪkst/ ]
[ UK /tɹænsfˈɪkst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having your attention fixated as though by a spell

How To Use transfixed In A Sentence

  • His friend overlooks her disheartening daily experience because she is transfixed by the status and desirability of her job. Times, Sunday Times
  • He transfixed the enemy's heart with a spear.
  • Kiko looks up almost painfully and I'm transfixed at the depth of horror I see in his blue eyes.
  • Her gaze was transfixed by his square shoulders, his rounded pectorals and his flat stomach.
  • The second diver was transfixed with horror, giving Kolchinsky those precious few seconds to rearm himself. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
  • The circumstances of the case have transfixed America's tabloid press for months. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was transfixed by the jostling crowds, the blasting horns.
  • I was now transfixed in the shininess of the razor.
  • But those New Zealanders not utterly transfixed by the imperial glare of London or Washington have sensed that our national interests lie in a wider kind of collective security than is offered by simple colonial obeisance.
  • General George E. Stratemeyer, the Far East Air Force commander, was so transfixed by her appearance that he just sat there “drooling egg down his chin” as she sashayed past his table. A Covert Affair
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