Example Sentences

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“What’s that coming over the hill? A white, middle-class Englishman! A Lone Enraptured Male! From Cambridge!”

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 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

Enraptured at her beauty and at her carriage at once so modest and yet so martial, men, women and children contemplated her with delirious joy and covered her with blessings.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne