RIVETING in a Sentence

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39 example sentences for RIVETING, 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. Nothing says quality like thick bridle leather, brass rivets, and metal fasteners.
5. Then, having riveted the eyes of his interlocutor on his own, he glanced towards the door.

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 Meanings and Examples of RIVETING
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riveting
 a.  wholly absorbing one's attention
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  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.
2  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
3  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
4  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
5  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
6  As usual, every eye was riveted on his face.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
7  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
8  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
9  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
10  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.
11  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.
12  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.
13  Danglars' riveted attention, Eugenie's composure, and the light and sprightly manner in which the baroness treated this important affair.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.
14  Then, having riveted the eyes of his interlocutor on his own, he glanced towards the door.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 103. Maximilian.
15  The eye of the old man was riveted upon a spot which Villefort could scarcely distinguish.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 108. The Judge.
Example Sentence:
1  The reviewer described Byatt's novel Possession as a riveting tale, one so absorbing that he had finished it in a single night.
2  It was an amazing film - I was absolutely riveted.
3  My attention was riveted by a slight movement in the bushes.
4  As a child I remember being riveted by my grandfather's appearance.
5  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.
6  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.
7  Nothing says quality like thick bridle leather, brass rivets, and metal fasteners.