Riveted

Word RIVETED
Character 7
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Definitions and meanings of "Riveted"

What do we mean by riveted?

To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.

To install rivets.

To command the attention of.

To make firm or immovable.

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The word "riveted" in example sentences

The word riveted the group and all eyes fell to the ground. ❋ Virginia Morell (1995)

He created a world that you can smell and taste, that you enter in riveted fascination. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Simenon's is a world that you can smell and taste and that you enter in riveted fascination. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The trailer had me riveted from the opening, the way in which it just threw away any pretense to add in dialogue or exposition or, for that matter, an explanation of the movie as it just sticks to the fun parts of a Fugitive meets Rambo kind of movie. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What leaves the reader riveted is not Lida's obsession with nastiness - disturbing though the murder, rape and homelessness are - but his emotional proximity ... ❋ Unknown (2000)

And yet I remember that at that early age -- mayhap under fourteen -- notwithstanding, and through all its incidental attractiveness, he hazarded the opinion to me (and the expression riveted my surprise), that there was feebleness in the structure of the work. ❋ Edwin Watts Chubb (1912)

The name riveted his consciousness upon the one man of all men upon earth whom he had wanted to meet. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)

The proslavery Democracy was drunk with rage at the prospect of losing control of the situation, which, up to that time, had needed scarcely an effort to bind in riveted chains impenetrable alike to the power of man or the frowns of the ❋ Pauline Elizabeth (1902)

Something in their expression riveted the doctor's gaze as by a spell. ❋ Mary Jane Holmes (1866)

“Then there’s the “Citizen Kane” opening that coaxes you into the story with images so compelling you’re riveted from the first panel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He ran his finger lightly over the metal equipment property tag riveted to one side. ❋ Douglass, Keith (1997)

Had Mr Palliser alone objected, Lady Glencora might have given way, but Mr Bott's word riveted her purpose. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Sara stood up as pale as death, and with an insolent expression riveted her large eyes upon him, whilst he, too, fixed his upon her with all the force of his peculiar earnestness and decision. ❋ Fredrika Bremer (1833)

As a cub reporter he covered Stevie Wonder's near-fatal car wreck, and would recall afterward being "riveted" by Stevie's comeback album "Songs in the Key of Life." ❋ Unknown (2007)

LEVIN: Indescribable -- just the events have really kind of riveted the nation, too, that something like this could happen. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The only time out they took was for something we talked about, the Moussaoui trial, when people were kind of riveted and reminded. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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