How To Use Transfixed In A Sentence
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His friend overlooks her disheartening daily experience because she is transfixed by the status and desirability of her job.
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He transfixed the enemy's heart with a spear.
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Kiko looks up almost painfully and I'm transfixed at the depth of horror I see in his blue eyes.
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Her gaze was transfixed by his square shoulders, his rounded pectorals and his flat stomach.
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The second diver was transfixed with horror, giving Kolchinsky those precious few seconds to rearm himself.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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The circumstances of the case have transfixed America's tabloid press for months.
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I was transfixed by the jostling crowds, the blasting horns.
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I was now transfixed in the shininess of the razor.
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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.
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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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The second diver was transfixed with horror, giving Kolchinsky those precious few seconds to rearm himself.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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And anyway, it seemed the entire country was transfixed by the collapse of the global financial system.
Times, Sunday Times
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I found myself transfixed by the fishmonger's the other day.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shoppers in the High Street were confused by the police presence and scores of people were transfixed on the sky as the helicopter hovered above.
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I was unconversant with the altitudes and energies of sentiment, and was transfixed with inexplicable horror by the symptoms which I now beheld.
Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale.
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Debbie Price stood transfixed at the sight of that tiny figure with those staring, uncomprehending eyes.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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On top of a rock, a blenny is transfixed, unsure whether to swim off or remain still against the background that no longer serves as camouflage.
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Thousands are expected to line the streets of Stockholm for a glimpse of the couple, whose unlikely love story has transfixed the nation.
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Her eyes were transfixed with terror.
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Thirteen months ago, the world was transfixed by the spectacle of a freezing but peaceful revolution unfolding on the streets of Kiev.
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She shall be transfixed to your Temple doors and flayed alive!
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And so through the glamour thrown upon them by Indaba-zimbi's will, that Zulu Impi seemed to see me transfixed with an assegai which never touched me.
Allan's Wife
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Alas for poor Bill, more arrows would soon pierce him than transfixed Saint Sebastian.
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Imagine if he did become president: he could be telling the world, in a live broadcast from the Oval Office, that he had, on a whim, pre-emptively launched a nuclear strike on Belgium, and no one would pay any attention because we would all be transfixed by his hair.
Danny Groner: Donald Trump's Hair and the Presidency
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Nobody else even batted an eyelid, but I was just transfixed, with chills literally running up my spine.
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So here she is on this bus, and the elderly gent sitting next to her is transfixed by the perfectly coiffed, frosted blonde hair, the imperious cheekbones and the effortlessly elegant, straight-backed deportment.
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She stood transfixed with fear [ wonder ].
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She camped it up about her "marvy-poo" beads and dress, and I sat transfixed, destined to join legions who enjoy following the foibles of the well-to-do.
Michael Henry Adams: Book Review: Admiring Rich Peoples Houses?
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Throughout the passage, Ahab stands on the deck as if transfixed, staring blindly ahead into the wind and sleet.
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No-one else seemed much moved by this, but I was transfixed.
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It was, you may remember, the news that transfixed the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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Transfixed, discomforted, we can't turn away from the spectacle as it lurches into even more ghastly territory.
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It is a stellar performance - Keith Moon's orgiastic flailing, mugging, and thrashing behind the kit leaves one utterly transfixed, and that's just a quarter of the group's dynamic.
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The stars did what they do, mostly: looked unbudging, transfixed, like cattle asleep in a black pasture, all the restlessness torn out of them, away, done with.
The Best American Poetry 2010
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Dana caught his eyes, his gaze transfixed hers, his eyes were black, and hypnotizing.
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And anyway, it seemed the entire country was transfixed by the collapse of the global financial system.
Times, Sunday Times
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The agent sits there, transfixed at the sight before him, and as the music breaks down they change position before it starts up again, once again writhing in and out in perfect sync with their soundtrack.
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Cannichael's limbs twitched autonomically and she watched, transfixed, until they were still.
Blood Test
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And thine olive, moveless features, transfixed as in a dream,
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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She was transfixed with horror.
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No frills, no fuss, and the audience seemed transfixed.
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This is a voice utterly unfettered and its luscious purity is a gorgeous gift to the speakers from which I listened transfixed by the variety and high standard of the music!
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No frills, no fuss, and the audience seemed transfixed.
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They're transfixed, except for one boy in the back row who's busy picking the stuffing out of his cushion.
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The latter property he appears to have transferred to the front of the old brown landau, where the aged coachman, with nose as flat as the ace of clubs, sits, transfixed and rigid as the curls of his caxon, from three till six every Sunday evening, urging on a cabbage-fed pair of ancient prods, which no exertion of the venerable Jehu has been able for the last seven years to provoke into a trot from Hyde park gate to that of Cumberland and back again.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
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Will we ever know all the reasons why people are transfixed by these images?
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This gentleman, becoming transfixed at the same moment as his lady – mother, could not by any means unfix himself again, but stood stiffly staring at the whole composition with
Little Dorrit
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She was transfixed by that veiled emerald gaze, frozen to the spot, unable to move.
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The water turned off as it reached the top of the sink basin, and Felicity watched transfixed as the dishes washed and dried themselves and put themselves neatly in the drainer rack.
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I was transfixed, squatting there by the machine, listening above the faint whirr of the engine.
TESTIMONIES
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Across the street, young girls stared transfixed at the voluminous white dresses in the bridal-shop windows.
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No frills, no fuss, and the audience seemed transfixed.
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He was transfixed: the sommelier with the handlebar moustache, the lobster sauce poured into soufflés, the gigot of lamb carved tableside.
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Her gaze was transfixed by his square shoulders, his rounded pectorals and his flat stomach.
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I found myself transfixed by the fishmonger's the other day.
Times, Sunday Times
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The photographs he took of her naked are the handiwork of a man transfixed by a big, bold, beautiful body.
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With a yellow bird on the Seagrape terrace, I sit transfixed as the cocktail, a blend of three local rums, accentuates the robust cacophony of tree frogs.
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In utter confidence she begins to sweetly whisper her secrets to the writer, who listens, transfixed.
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The mournful opening adagio is extremely haunting, images of concentration camps, trains and ghettoes speedily passed through my head as I sat transfixed listening to the Griller's superbly inflexed interpretation.
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I had been transfixed by the figure of the king and his swordsmen, and had not noticed the other man.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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Surrounded by guests in bolo ties, I watch, transfixed.
Thai Noon
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Virtually everybody in the factory - the boss, or should I say the big cheese, included - is gathered round, transfixed by the Japanese Grand Prix.
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I was transfixed with fear and the sheer beauty of the scene.
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Glancing towards the car park, I am transfixed by the sight of a man in a flat cap cleaning our car.
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By the time I got to the Mexican trip toward the end of the novel, I was transfixed.
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Behind them he raised his staff crossways, and all the incoming arrows seemed to shatter in mid air, but a few fell through, and one village fell, transfixed by the shaft through his heart.
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Thousands are expected to line the streets of Stockholm for a glimpse of the couple, whose unlikely love story has transfixed the nation.
Times, Sunday Times
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His eyes were transfixed in a blank stare, not seeming to recognize anything around him, but focused intently upon the licks of flame that jumped and fluttered off of the burning wood beneath the cooking grate.
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Benjy, at last aware of danger, turned, faced the oncoming juggernaut, transfixed.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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We were transfixed with horror and fascination.
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But we're simultaneously transfixed by the scale of the event, excited by its uncommon nature.
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The fisherman transfixed the shark with a harpoon.
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I was transfixed by the sumptuous food, all new tastes and textures, sprinkled with this magical green stuff that was fresh, pungent and pokey all at the same time.
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One cannot be sure what it was about the appearance or the behaviour of this insect that led the Greeks to call it, too, mantis; perhaps its habit of adopting a motionless position as if transfixed.
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Thirteen months ago, the world was transfixed by the spectacle of a freezing but peaceful revolution unfolding on the streets of Kiev.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was too transfixed on his twitch to let that happen.
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Henry's face showed astonishment as the steering wheel snapped and its column transfixed his chest.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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He stood and I thought I saw a slight tremor shake his body, and I was staring at him, transfixed.
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As those of you who have seen gamelan dance can imagine, I was totally transfixed.
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When loafing in Miami South Beach, I was transfixed by the neon-coloured art deco hotels on Ocean Drive and, each day, squeezed past laughing tourists taking photographs of one particular building.
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For a moment she stood transfixed in the doorway.
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The conference delegates were transfixed by her speech.
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At night I am transfixed by the gentle motion of the great hull accompanied by the hypnotic creaking of richly-grained wood.
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We were transfixed with horror and fascination.
Times, Sunday Times
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At one point I even forgot the band were there, I was so transfixed with the visuals, which included lots of period footage of railways.
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This unassuming film has reservoirs of riches that have transfixed me three times now.
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I stood transfixed, staring as he glowed with magnetism and enchanted charm.
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The conference delegates were transfixed by her speech.
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She was playing the piano and I stood there transfixed, a little kid with a pin through his jersey from the slums.
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Quirk: "Keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece.
Casting the Detectives: Crime Fiction's Biggest Movie Stars
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Out of the suit, unsprung on a king-sized hotel bed, his skin paler than she had at first thought, she was still transfixed: the stubble along his jaw, the small hard muscles in his calves, his forearms, an odd curling leaf tattooed high on one shoulder.
Everything is Fine
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And I was transfixed, almost hypnotised by the grotesque scene in front of me.
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Ash-Leigh did up the last button of his moleskins and watched, transfixed.
Off the Wall
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With his hands firmly gripping the high back of the pilot's seat, Howard stared transfixed out the sloping front window.
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I was transfixed by the vision of this Arctic ogress stepping through the gloom.
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And we stood there just transfixed, as we watched those first television pictures coming in.
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Ethel stood by, pale and transfixed with horror.
The Daisy Chain
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I should explain that moths are now generally hunted humanely: gone are the days when they were etherized upon a table or transfixed with pins.
Wildwood
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They wandered through the Big Room, mesmerized by the translucent, calcite soda straws in the Doll's Theater, transfixed by threads of aragonite — sharp as needles — that spun around The Temple of the Sun.
The Devil's Inkwell
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The show has transfixed practically every TV-watcher since it was first broadcast thanks to Tarrant's skilful helmsmanship.
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He is transfixed by footage of riots showing on Sky News.
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While she convalesced from her serious illness, she watched the world-famous Whitbread Race on television and was transfixed by the entire event.
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We were transfixed, and used to wonder whether all the women in England were like that.
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I let the swing come to a stop and sat there transfixed by the rightness of the idea, but a little staggered at what it might entail.
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And our man wasn't just standing in the back checking his Blackberry; he was right up front, visibly transfixed by the Montrealers' dramatic balladry.
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Let's see you puff your pop-gun, Johnny," cries one of the tars, and they swung a champagne cork on a string as a target, twenty yards off; one of the grinning little brutes slipped a dart into his sumpitan, clapped it to his mouth - and in a twinkling there was the cork, jerking on its string, transfixed by the foot-long needle.
Flashman's Lady
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A body lay in the corner, transfixed by a spear.
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P would wear these semi-see-thru tops and her nipples would be poking through almost skyward in their pertness: they were amazing I tell you, I was transfixed.
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‘When it's over I'll bring you somewhere,’ he told me all of a sudden, without turning his head, his eyes transfixed on the rich crimsons and mauves in the sky.
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Literally every evening the flatmates and I would gather round the TV and watch hour after hour of gymnastics, triathlons, high jump, diving, even a spot of dressage - whatever was on, we were transfixed.
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As I write this I am picturing the first time I saw them, the first time I was transfixed by their strangeness, their confidence and their sense of mission.
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Cars are swooshing by every so often and I find myself almost transfixed watching them.
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She is transfixed by possibility: Wonder is her metier.
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Without turning her character into an icon, the camera seems almost transfixed by the limpid beauty and stillness of Loftus.
Times, Sunday Times
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She grabbed a medium-sized log from the hearthside basket and gently placed it diagonally across the top; she sat back on the couch, watching the flames, transfixed.
Last Night at Chateau Marmont
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Transfixed by a sports agenda of lightish news, the BBC failed to see the real story.
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I was transfixed by this sentimental and nostalgic portrait of a 1930s Donegal family.
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And I was transfixed, almost hypnotised by the grotesque scene in front of me.
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One fair-haired invader lay across the gunwale of a boat, the manner of his death told by the arrow that transfixed his breast.
CHAPTER XII
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Ethel stood by, pale and transfixed with horror.
The Daisy Chain
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Through the night feeds, he sat transfixed, preparing endless cups of tea.
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She was first transfixed with surprise, and then electrified with delight.
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It was, you may remember, the news that transfixed the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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If people were not transfixed on the band, they at least ceased to idly chatter.
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Without turning her character into an icon, the camera seems almost transfixed by the limpid beauty and stillness of Loftus.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was practically impossible not to be transfixed by her.
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The elderly gentleman sitting next to her is transfixed by the perfectly coiffed, frosted blonde hair, the imperious cheekbones and the effortlessly elegant, straight-backed deportment.
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I was transfixed, wondering if the lead singer was male or female.
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He stood staring at the ghost, transfixed with terror.
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The dive boat hurtled at the swell, outboard motors bellowing, the white-knuckled skipper see-sawing the throttle, the rest of us staring transfixed at the crackling green breakers on the bow.
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At a masterclass given by the English soprano Emma Kirkby, I watched in admiration as a young Dublin counter-tenor, Stephen Shellard, transfixed his audience with his honeyed tone and moving interpretation.
