Sample sentences for MESMERIZE

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Definition

to completely hold someone's entire attention

or more rarely: to hypnotize

Walked into the room and stared at the wall, mesmerized.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters

Jean Louise was mesmerized.
Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
Mesmerized by the come and go, the sad drift and flow of lives in painful transition, I sat, waiting for an ending.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
Garvey's dance seemed to mesmerize Peter, who watched closely, following every movement.
Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear
Dee's fingers moved in the water, the ripples languid and mesmerizing.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
She paused, mesmerized by the churning and rolling of the water, and when she finally turned her head, she realized his image had left her as well.
Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
'Yes, Fairy, told us what?' echoed Juliet belligerently, still a bit miffed over the mesmerizing.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
I watched his hands working, mesmerized.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
Sophia turned to study his face, mesmerized by the reflection of firelight in his eyes.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
Levin sat listening to the doctor's stories of a quack mesmerizer and looking at the ashes of his cigarette.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
It called her speech "mesmerizing, hypnotic, mysteriously touching."
Jerry Spinelli -- Stargirl
The scene was utterly mesmerizing, alarming even to him.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
They were mesmerizing in an odd, unpleasant way.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
Hades had the same intense eyes, the same kind of mesmerizing, evil charisma.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
Julian, beside her, had caught sight of his father; he seemed mesmerized, as if by a snake.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
The Augur doesn't break eye contact, seemingly mesmerized by my anger.
Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
I'm mesmerized by my byline.
Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
He held it in front of her, but like one mesmerized, she did not move.
Flannery O'Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
She stood mesmerized, watching one of her mother's cells divide in two, just as they'd done when Henrietta was an embryo in her mother's womb.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Lourdes is mesmerized by the greenish water, by the sad, sputtering fountain, and a wound inside her reopens.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban

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