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

Among his burbling fan letters, Announcer Gray got an ominous note from an anonymous husband who claimed Gray had "mesmerized" his wife.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ever since the Daihō-in had mesmerized her, impressed his will on her, the daily improvement could be marked.

From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)