Example sentences for: mesmerizing

How can you use “mesmerizing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The "hypnotic, sensually charged adaptation … has the same kind of complex allure that made The English Patient so mesmerizing.

  • Corot was born in 1796, and his 200 th birthday is the pretext for two mesmerizing shows in New York this fall: a wide-ranging retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a more specialized show at the Brooklyn Museum built around Corot's Italian visits.

  • Seamus Heaney's poem The Little Canticles of Asturias, which appeared in the debut issue of SLATE, contains a mesmerizing image of a "smouldering maw/ of a pile of newspapers lit long ago," fanning "up in the wind, breaking off and away/ in flame-posies, small airborne fire-ships."

  • He's fun to watch, but he's not the performer Carville is--Carville, who comes through in the documentary The War Room as a titanic operator, a barker whose appetite for politics is mesmerizing to the point of messianism.

  • "This dense, mesmerizing novel will leave readers stunned, as if waking from a horrific sunburnt daydream," pronounces Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly . Says Time 's John Skow of the "quirky trilogy": "a reader might conclude: brilliant, obsessive, panoramic--and two novels too many."


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast