Example Sentences

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Still the sounds were entrancing and the giant puppet impressive.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

The dexterity of her body and the devious inventiveness of her mind were entrancing: “I have very thin elbows, they are painful,” she said.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022

Some of them were entrancing even on a screen, like Mihhail Plutahhin’s hypnotic “The Observers,” which consisted of handlers wordlessly moving objects rescued from forced-labor camps this way and that on a table.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2021

The Beatles were on the launch pad, and their curious accents were entrancing the South.

From Newsweek

At this time, I was deep in Heinrich Heine, whose prose was not easy to read, but whose lyrics, with a very slight help from the dictionary, were entrancing!

From Confessions of a Book-Lover by Egan, Maurice Francis