mesmerize
verb (used with object)
had mesmerized
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past perfectof mesmerize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Sunday’s vote capped a week-long constitutional crisis that had mesmerized the nation.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2022
I offered my reading of “Big Wheel,” which had mesmerized me — raising themes, I thought, of labor, manufacturing decline, and the slippage between seductive and toxic masculinity.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2021
Sitting there, I realized that the experience had mesmerized me.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 12, 2016
When Alexander Solzhenitsyn was abruptly expelled from Russia as a traitorous "alien" last February, the Soviet leaders hoped to rid the U.S.S.R. of a commanding moral presence whose martyrdom had mesmerized the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was using all his persuasive power, and her gaze was fixed upon him as though he had mesmerized her.
From Marcia Schuyler by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
