transfix - use in sentences

Object

  • audience: At the end a magnificent falcon swoops over the transfixed audience.
  • eye: Then he became aware of the presence of another, he looked up to see himself, hard eyes transfixed in an evil stare.
  • nation: The drama of the Peter Mandelson affair had the nation transfixed for days, and the national tabloids had a field day.
  • minute: This evening he spent 15 minutes transfixed by the tiger mask that hangs from Jonny's door.
  • body: He was martyred under Decius, his body transfixed with two huge nails.
  • stare: There, transfixed, visitors stare at the projected animations of Jan Svankmajer.

Subject

  • image: Like billions of others around the world, Andy Crisp spent the day transfixed by the live images on the TV.
  • beauty: As they pause at the base of this hill, transfixed by the beauty of the vision, a horseman approaches behind them.
  • scene: We were transfixed by the scene and the two of us were howling before long.
  • man: The boys are transfixed by the old man 's face.

Preposition: by

  • image: Like billions of others around the world, Andy Crisp spent the day transfixed by the live images on the TV.
  • beauty: As they pause at the base of this hill, transfixed by the beauty of the vision, a horseman approaches behind them.
  • scene: We were transfixed by the scene and the two of us were howling before long.
  • man: The boys are transfixed by the old man 's face.

Modifying Another Word

  • there: Your friend stands there transfixed, the bloody glass still in his hands.
  • so: So transfixed and so in love, she is willing to give up her own life so that his curse can end.
  • still: Taking her seat her friend, eyes still transfixed on the screen says to her, " Where have you been?
  • suddenly: Calum is suddenly transfixed; there is a landscape that doesn't look Hungarian.
  • totally: There was a covers band there that were doing rock covers of the day, and I remember being totally transfixed.
  • completely: Ben sat through the whole 50 minutes completely transfixed.

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