RIVET in a Sentence

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39 example sentences for RIVET, such as:

1. As usual, every eye was riveted on his face.
2. My attention was riveted by a slight movement in the bushes.
3. As a child I remember being riveted by my grandfather's appearance.
4. The lieutenant explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters.
5. Nothing says quality like thick bridle leather, brass rivets, and metal fasteners.

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 Meanings and Examples of RIVET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rivet
 n.  metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  I felt as if an awful charm was framing round and gathering over me: I trembled to hear some fatal word spoken which would at once declare and rivet the spell.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  When our visitor had disappeared, Sherlock Holmes's movements were such as to rivet our attention.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
3  The lieutenant explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
4  But with all their eyes again riveted upon the swart Fedallah and his crew, the inmates of the other boats obeyed not the command.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
5  He even suffered their hands to meet, without betraying the least emotion, or varying his riveted attitude of attention.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
6  The Indians riveted their eyes on the rocks, and listened with an attention that seemed to turn them into stone.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
7  The young man was relieved from the awkwardness of making any further protestations of his own demerits, by an exclamation from Chingachgook, and the attitude of riveted attention assumed by his son.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
8  The Indian gravely raised his paddle, and pointed in the direction in which his own steady look was riveted.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
9  As usual, every eye was riveted on his face.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
10  He met everywhere, with eyes riveted on his own, heads erect and nostrils expanded, as if each individual present felt himself able and willing, singly, to redress the wrongs of his race.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
11  Each eye was riveted on the center of that ring, which contained the objects of so much and of so common an interest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
12  A dagger-pointed gaze from without his blackened face was held toward the enemy, but his greater hatred was riveted upon the man, who, not knowing him, had called him a mule driver.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
13  Dantes' whole attention was riveted on a man who could thus forget his own misfortunes while occupying himself with the destinies of others.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
14  Here Haidee cast a significant glance at Monte Cristo, whose eyes had been riveted on her countenance during the whole course of her narrative.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
15  The dying man's eyes were all the time riveted on the door, through which he hoped succor would arrive.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 83. The Hand of God.
Example Sentence:
1  It was an amazing film - I was absolutely riveted.
2  My attention was riveted by a slight movement in the bushes.
3  As a child I remember being riveted by my grandfather's appearance.
4  He was young -- perhaps from twenty- eight to thirty -- tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.
5  Without speaking, without smiling, without seeming to recognize in me a human being, he only twined my waist with his arm and riveted me to his side.
6  Nothing says quality like thick bridle leather, brass rivets, and metal fasteners.
7  The reviewer described Byatt's novel Possession as a riveting tale, one so absorbing that he had finished it in a single night.