fascinate
verb (used with object)
to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall.
had fascinated
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past perfectof fascinate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Even before its conquest in the second century BCE, Greece and its classical past had fascinated Romans.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Like the movie stars who had fascinated her since childhood, she was a master of entrances.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2021
He planted wildflowers to try to attract bees that had fascinated him in wildlife documentaries.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2021
In a 2013 episode of the television program “The Big Interview With Dan Rather,” he explained that harmonies had fascinated him ever since he first heard his older sister Geraldine singing them in church.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2020
But the idea of time jumping, which with its false hint of immbr tality had fascinated everyone who listened to me, from the Horden Island fisherman on up to the prime minister, left him cold.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
