enthralled
Example Sentences
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Snow, writes Mr. Dikötter, spent several months at the Communist base, “enthralled by the mythical version Mao offered of himself and his Party.”
But he was moved so deeply by what he was reading—so enthralled by the man’s articulation of that nation’s ideals—that he’d devote the rest of his life to studying them both.
Adek and I attended the same university, and I found him outside the library, lecturing to a trio of enthralled young ladies about the dangers facing our neighbor Czechoslovakia now that Germany had annexed Austria.
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Everyone was just enthralled by the tales of his riches, especially the fancy cars.
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The movie is flattering, but it’s also genuinely revealing, and it’s clearly reaching an audience that never expected to be so enthralled by research about protein structures.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.