enrapt

Example Sentences

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And then there's Sly and the Family Stone, performing their counterculture masterwork "Everyday People" with the kind of gusto that can only be achieved in front of a sea of enrapt concertgoers.

From Salon

In New York, we took a detour to Niagara Falls and stood enrapt, watching slivers of rainbows glimmer in the frothy abyss as the falls crashed violently onto the rocks — all of us, for once, speechless.

From New York Times

O’Rourke led with the border and closed with climate change, and held a crowd of 100 or more enrapt for over an hour, fielding questions in English and Spanish with fluency.

From The Guardian

Over the next four pages, you watch enrapt as Brusatte outfits the sauropods with the features crucial to their humongousness.

From Washington Post

In the 1970s, anti-Japanese sentiments faded as Americans became enrapt with health foods.

From Slate