How to Use transfix in a Sentence

transfix

verb

• Roshanak, a 31-year-old from Tehran, watched the game, transfixed.
  — Amie Ferris-Rotman, Washington Post, 15 June 2018
• For the first time since the start of the war, the group was transfixed by flickering images on a screen.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
• The charge is the latest twist in a saga that has transfixed the baseball world since The Times broke the story on March 20.
  — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• The entire Reds dugout was transfixed as the opening notes played.
  — Zach Buchanan, Cincinnati.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• But for most of the night, the nation’s eyes were transfixed on Trump’s abuse of the platform that he was given.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 May 2023
• But for 11 days, they are transfixed by Vegas’ siren of hope.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2019
• Who among us isn’t transfixed by a sordid true crime tale?
  — Jennifer Latson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• He certainly was transfixed - just like the rest of the country.
  — Isaac Stanley-Becker, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
• Campers gaze, transfixed, at images of lives well lived.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• No matter, at 80, Mitchell’s lost none of her power to transfix as a singer.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2024
• More than 6,000 miles from Beijing, three friends in Boston were transfixed by the news.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• Initially you're drawn to the image, and you are transfixed.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 13 Sep. 2017
• And many will continue to be transfixed by the crisis du jour in the Middle East.
  — Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
• The voyage of Chandrayaan-2 transfixed India and put it on the brink of becoming only the fourth country in the world to land a rover on the moon.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• The new findings shed more light on a case that has continued to transfix the nation.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• The disaster has transfixed an Iran still reeling from days of protests and unrest that swept the country at the start of the year.
  — Christopher Bodeen, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• Hunters come, surely, but more stand transfixed at the sight and sounds of these expressive birds.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2019
• Tires don’t shriek when somebody brakes to avoid an opossum transfixed by headlights in the middle of the road.
  — Gena Steffens, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
• Fellig was transfixed by the camera, the plate, the processing and the picture of himself.
  — Sarah Boxer, New York Times, 1 June 2018
• The entire crowd was transfixed — even Mr. Bean himself.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
• With little in the way of bells and whistles (no choreo here), the star held the Glastonbury crowd transfixed for the duration of her set.
  — Kerry McDermott, Vogue, 1 July 2024
• Wave a handful of blueberries in front of it and the finger will follow, transfixed.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2018
• Like many of us, he was transfixed by the massive screens and the crystal-clear images projected on them.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2024
• Through reliving the horror that transfixed and touched us.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 7 Nov. 2019
• Fans were transfixed by their elaborate light shows on stage.
  — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2018
• Medvedev, who was cast as the villain for much of this year's tournament, was equally transfixed by the montage.
  — Ben Church and Don Riddell, CNN, 9 Sep. 2019
• The crowd, despite being packed to the gills, was dead silent at moments, simply transfixed by what was taking place in front of them.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2024
• The world is transfixed by the novel coronavirus outbreak spreading around the globe.
  — Liz Specht, Wired, 13 Mar. 2020
• The black-and-white striping of, say, fifty to a hundred tiny penguins all lined up (a favorite visual refrain of hers) is optically transfixing.
  — Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
• Both teams were strangely transfixed by this sudden spell of inaccuracy.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024