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Meanings of riveting in English
Capable of arousing and holding the attention.
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Synonyms
Examples for "fascinating"
Examples for "fascinating"
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The coming year should be a fascinating one for the technology industry.
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The fascinating recordings will help in the development of future x-ray technology.
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I find this question really fascinating in the context of human identity.
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It is the most fascinating thing in the world; Love not excepted.
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The best examples age for decades, taking on complex and fascinating flavours.
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At some point she had taken my hand and was gripping it.
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It's a very gripping sci-fi story that deals with a catastrophic situation.
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I forced my hand through that roil of energy, gripping her hand.
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Simpson's trial was excellent, but reality can be more gripping than fiction.
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Before that it had basked in the 'Africa Rising' hype gripping investors.
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There are times too for raising power and times for absorbing power.
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This allows teachers to see whether they are actually absorbing the information.
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She was married; found life in London somewhat absorbing; and forgot Mary.
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In the absorbing public questions that ensued, resulting in the War of
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For in truth the boys were absorbing the glory of the moonlight.
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I found my work in the South Side Boys' Club deeply engrossing.
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The result is an engrossing book that informs as well as moves.
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The greater part of the afternoon was passed in this engrossing work.
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The Tenor made no remark; his pipes seemed to be all engrossing.
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To this natural interest is due the engrossing character of nature study.
Usage of riveting in English
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The performances by James Wood's remarkable New London Chamber Choir are riveting.
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Read on for an exciting look at David Hewson's riveting new thriller
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Yet I just thought that this could be an amazingly riveting film.
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His testimony was powerful, honest, and riveting, Trump said in Twitter post.
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After ninety minutes of this riveting heresy, McNamara made three fateful decisions.
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Except there's something underneath politics here, something riveting and unspinnable and true.
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The fourth-ranked Blue Devils were involved in a riveting game with No.
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Then he gave Paris a riveting look, settling back in his chair.
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It sets the tone for what quickly flowers into a riveting tournament.
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It's the most cost-effective drama there is, and often the most riveting.
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As ever with Roberts, the writing is impeccable and the ideas riveting.
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Diane Arbus Hayward Gallery Every photograph a riveting narrative of American life.
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As theatre it was riveting, but as sport it provided the ultimate.
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There is no escaping the past in Andrew Haigh's riveting domestic drama.
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Directly through its subsidiary, Studiocanal, they have produced many riveting box-office hits.
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He is a riveting writer, compelling and -I suspect -compulsive.
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Riveting across language varieties
Ireland
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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