mesmerize
Example Sentences
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I stood mesmerized by the brown-eyed boy staring back at me.
From Literature
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The flood of slop in 2025, they concluded, was prolific and oddly mesmerizing.
From Salon
It’s a bit too long, with a lot of text to follow, but Hildegard’s visions, exploding out of the plot scenes, are mesmerizing.
“I was mesmerized by the landscapes and architecture,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times
Walking down Sixth Avenue in New York recently, I was mesmerized by a Salvation Army dude with his red donation bucket dancing to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.