Sample Sentences for
rapt
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rapt as in:  rapt attention

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She watched with rapt attention.
rapt = fascinated
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    We all listened with rapt attention as she described the accident.
    rapt = deep interest and focus
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    The audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale.  (source)
    rapt = with deep interest and focus
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    For nearly a quarter of an hour he spoke into the rapt silence: He told them about hearing the disembodied voice, how Hermione had finally realized that he was hearing a basilisk in the pipes; how he and Ron had followed the spiders...  (source)
    rapt = showing deep interest and focus
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    Moving deliberately around the display, Billie points out Chris as a toddler astride a hobby horse, Chris as a rapt eight-year-old in a yellow rain slicker on his first backpacking trip, Chris at his high school commencement.  (source)
    rapt = showing deep interest
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    In her hands was a crystal ball into which she was gazing raptly.  (source)
    raptly = with deep interest and focus
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    The boy watched, his initial doubt replaced with plain delight, then by raptness, then by a dawning mute blankness.  (source)
    raptness = a state of deep interest and focus
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The cause of all the commotion sat serenely, his rapt, innocent gaze never straying from the minister's face, his hand still cupped over the imprisoned fly.  (source)
    rapt = showing deep interest and focus
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    Clustered around the radio, they all listen raptly to the BBC.  (source)
    raptly = with deep interest and focus
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    Jamie stood to one side a little, observing me and taking pleasure in my raptness.  (source)
    raptness = a state of deep interest and focus
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    She had a rapt audience as she pressed her ear to Grace's hot pink T-shirt, listening for a heartbeat that wasn't there.  (source)
    rapt = deeply interested and focused
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    The boy and his mother study it raptly over MAMA'S shoulders.  (source)
    raptly = with deep interest and focus
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    Even the Silvers stop to watch in rapt silence.  (source)
    rapt = deep interest and focus
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    Arya made faces across the table when no one was looking; Sansa listened raptly while the king's high harper sang songs of chivalry, and Rickon kept asking why Jon wasn't with them.†  (source)
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rapt as in:  rapt with love

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She danced rapt with the music.
rapt = deeply moved or filled with intense pleasure
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    She was rapt with love.  (source)
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    In the painting, the angel is gazing in rapt adoration of baby Jesus.
    rapt = deeply moved
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    Anne had no business to look so rapt and radiant.  (source)
    rapt = filled with deep pleasure
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    ...they could see the faces of the lovers, pale, close together, rapt in oblivious forgetfulness, drifting into the unknown.  (source)
    rapt = filled with deep pleasure
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    "An' we'd keep a few pigeons to go flyin' around the win'mill like they done when I was a kid." He looked raptly at the wall over Lennie's head. "An' it'd be our own, an' nobody could can us."  (source)
    raptly = filled with pleasure
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    He was gazing upward with a rapt expression, a man watching his greatest dream become reality.  (source)
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    It was only a few months after the pigs had been sold that she noticed one day, with a cold sensation in her stomach, that familiar rapt expression on Dick's face.  (source)
    rapt = full of pleasure
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    So he preached to them, as he had always preached: with that rapt fury which they had considered sacrilege and which those from the other churches believed to be out and out insanity.  (source)
    rapt = deeply moved
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    "He say he love me," repeated the girl, in a kind of rapt awe.  (source)
    rapt = filled with deep pleasure
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    It was strange that the girl did not seem aware of it: that she could lift her rapt face to her dancer's, and drop her hands into his, without appearing to feel the offence of his look and touch.  (source)
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    The piece of glass broken out at the corner of the window just nipped off the bare heel of the boy standing motionless and looking with rapt eyes into the face of the Christ.  (source)
    rapt = deeply moved or filled with intense pleasure
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    He was wrinkled and black, with scant gray and tufted hair; his voice and hands shook as with palsy; but on his face lay the intense rapt look of the religious fanatic.  (source)
    rapt = filled with pleasure
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    He received no answer, all for the moment sitting rapt in admiration of the performance described.  (source)
    rapt = deeply moved
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