enthrallment

Example Sentences

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As an adult, I’ve tried to will myself back into enthrallment with this plucky heroine who repels a scary hobo, bravely goes without food and saves a poor Italian immigrant when others are against her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Are art critics people, prone to the familiar flurries of aversion and enthrallment?

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023

It isn’t just Mary’s enthrallment to Vogel that “The Foundling” probes so well, but the way someone like Vogel can not only thrive under patriarchy but perpetuate it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2022

Gibney confesses to his own enthrallment to his iPhone, how “when it was in my pocket, for every idle moment, my hand was drawn to it like Frodo’s hand to the ring.”

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2015

The words awoke John from his enthrallment and she saw by his glance toward her that he did not comprehend their meaning.

From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by Richardson, James H.