How to Use transfix in a Sentence

transfix

verb
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  • Roshanak, a 31-year-old from Tehran, watched the game, transfixed.
    — Amie Ferris-Rotman, Washington Post, 15 June 2018
  • For the first time since the start of the war, the group was transfixed by flickering images on a screen.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The charge is the latest twist in a saga that has transfixed the baseball world since The Times broke the story on March 20.
    — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The entire Reds dugout was transfixed as the opening notes played.
    — Zach Buchanan, Cincinnati.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • But for most of the night, the nation’s eyes were transfixed on Trump’s abuse of the platform that he was given.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 May 2023
  • But for 11 days, they are transfixed by Vegas’ siren of hope.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2019
  • Who among us isn’t transfixed by a sordid true crime tale?
    — Jennifer Latson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • He certainly was transfixed - just like the rest of the country.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
  • Campers gaze, transfixed, at images of lives well lived.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • No matter, at 80, Mitchell’s lost none of her power to transfix as a singer.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2024
  • More than 6,000 miles from Beijing, three friends in Boston were transfixed by the news.
    — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Initially you're drawn to the image, and you are transfixed.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 13 Sep. 2017
  • And many will continue to be transfixed by the crisis du jour in the Middle East.
    — Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The voyage of Chandrayaan-2 transfixed India and put it on the brink of becoming only the fourth country in the world to land a rover on the moon.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The new findings shed more light on a case that has continued to transfix the nation.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The disaster has transfixed an Iran still reeling from days of protests and unrest that swept the country at the start of the year.
    — Christopher Bodeen, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Hunters come, surely, but more stand transfixed at the sight and sounds of these expressive birds.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Tires don’t shriek when somebody brakes to avoid an opossum transfixed by headlights in the middle of the road.
    — Gena Steffens, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
  • Fellig was transfixed by the camera, the plate, the processing and the picture of himself.
    — Sarah Boxer, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • The entire crowd was transfixed — even Mr. Bean himself.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
  • With little in the way of bells and whistles (no choreo here), the star held the Glastonbury crowd transfixed for the duration of her set.
    — Kerry McDermott, Vogue, 1 July 2024
  • Wave a handful of blueberries in front of it and the finger will follow, transfixed.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Like many of us, he was transfixed by the massive screens and the crystal-clear images projected on them.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Through reliving the horror that transfixed and touched us.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Fans were transfixed by their elaborate light shows on stage.
    — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Medvedev, who was cast as the villain for much of this year's tournament, was equally transfixed by the montage.
    — Ben Church and Don Riddell, CNN, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The crowd, despite being packed to the gills, was dead silent at moments, simply transfixed by what was taking place in front of them.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2024
  • The world is transfixed by the novel coronavirus outbreak spreading around the globe.
    — Liz Specht, Wired, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Homer becomes transfixed by Trump's hair, which suddenly comes to life, then reaches out and grabs him.
    — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 15 July 2024
  • Six hundred miles from the blast site, Norwegian conscripts stood transfixed at their border posts, watching the horizon glow.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024

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