Example Sentences

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Connor plays with a grasshopper, and the camera watches it as fascinatedly as he does: a sequence that does nothing except let the movie breathe briefly in sympathy with the boy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2021

Bainbridge's music, also fascinatedly detailed, drew on the considerable talents of the Sinfonietta Voices, together with soloists Andrew Watts and Lucy Schaufer, to produce some striking vocal effects.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2012

Too young for World War I, De Henriquez fascinatedly watched the bombardment of Trieste from his roof while others cowered in cellars, at war's end begged and bought heaps of surplus materiel.

From Time Magazine Archive

At nine, German-born Classicist Jaeger fascinatedly read his first Latin grammar straight through, at 25 took over the University of Basel's Greek chair, once occupied by Nietzsche.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was quite close to Herbie now, eyes fixed fascinatedly on those unreadable dull-red photoelectric cells that were the robot’s eyes.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov