How to Use fascinate in a Sentence

fascinate

verb
  • Her paintings never fail to fascinate.
  • And that fascinated me, the strength of his north star.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The ropes, wires and shifting sets that keep the play moving fascinate her.
    Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
  • We’ve always been fascinated by the trees, in which some of the trees exceed 4,000 years in age.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
  • More than the movie, I was really fascinated by the creation of the project.
    Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
  • But [the script] had the monologue, and what fascinated me was the monologue was real.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Or even within the law, what areas fascinate you the most?
    Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
  • She was fascinated by the use of language and the way her students used it.
    Andrea Cavallier, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Growing up on the Isle of Wight, she is fascinated by fossils that wash up on the shore.
    Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • There is one single shot from Revenge of the Sith that fascinates me.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Hall is aware of the concerns about kids being fascinated with guns in the wrong way.
    Martin Kaste, NPR, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Gone are the days of just rolling a ball around or being fascinated by their face in a mirror.
    Jessica Booth, Parents, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Here are six queens, among many, to inspire, fascinate — and to follow on YouTube.
    Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
  • This has to do, partly, with why we are fascinated by heroes in the first place.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • She is also fascinated by birds and loves to birdwatch through the window from her perch on the very top of the cat tree.
    The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2024
  • The public was fascinated by the trial, but the brothers became the butt of jokes.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2024
  • In the sweet video, Kelly's 13-month-old son Sidney sits on his mom's lap and is fascinated by a dog.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Which trend in current Latin music fascinates you the most?
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 8 May 2024
  • But Waller, 60, who co-owns a neon sign shop in Somerville and has long been fascinated by Graves Light, always hoped to bring it back.
    Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The life and death of Mary, Queen of Scots, continue to fascinate almost 500 years after her reign.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2020
  • At one point, Simon tells Gibney that he is fascinated by the way songs change over time.
    Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Even as a Cow Girl, people are fascinated with my body parts, or so a little bird told me.
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Eric Ries and his ideas from The Lean Startup also fascinate me.
    Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • And like me, she is fascinated by lifestyle and telling a story.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 3 July 2024
  • In the years since, the pinwheels have continued to fascinate, beguile and confound us.
    Peter Tuthill, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The odds of such an impact are extremely low, but still fascinate Sieh.
    Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020
  • The night-side of our lives—that is, the occult, the spiritual world—continues to fascinate me.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • People don't know what to do, but people in the world are fascinated with my journey.
    Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 2 June 2024
  • Fast-forward several decades and numerous gongs, and the man who imbues Catholicism into many of his movies is still fascinated by the religion to this day.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2024
  • From the ages of 5 to 15, I was captivated by baseball cards, fascinated by their value appreciation and the prospect of selling them.
    Noel Burgess, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024

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