Example Sentences

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For the past six years, Dimon and his top executives have tried to design an office building that will captivate and entice their staff.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Caitlin Clark: The young superstar who will captivate the US this weekend.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2024

If it materializes, this trial will captivate viewers and audiences like never before and that includes the 9-month-long criminal trial of OJ.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2023

There’s no telling which permutation of pink will captivate us next—but given the colorful history of the hues that fall somewhere between white and red, pink’s next heyday is probably right around the corner.

From National Geographic • Jul. 21, 2023

The bright colors of this unique book, and the sound of its rhymes chanted by mamma, will captivate the eye and ear of the babies, whose own book it is.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 by Various