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Enraptured New York audiences demanded the entire piece be played again as an encore at four performances.

From New York Times • May 13, 2020

Enraptured by it, he decides to track down Maxwell — a fairly well-known physicist in hiding — and deliver the lost book of Adana Moreau in person.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2020

Enraptured watchers—which is to say, anyone who likes the game of basketball, and maybe even some who don’t—are beginning to wonder if they’ll lose a game before Christmas, or, heck, Easter.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2015

Enraptured club punters who cry "you're beautiful" are likely to go even weaker at the knees now the fragrances of French on songs such as Mon Amour are added to Kent's trademark intimacy.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2010

Ever blessed be those innocent days,    Ever sweet their remembrance to me; When often, in silent amaze,    Enraptured, I’d gaze upon thee!

From Cottage Poems by Brontë, Patrick