Sentence examples for audience was riveted from inspiring English sources
The audience was riveted.
When Louise came on, they played those last two pages, and the audience was riveted.
Though the program was long and demanding (each one of these works contains a concert's worth of music to mull over), the audience was riveted.
ATLANTA — While the golf audience was riveted by the FedEx Cup points race — otherwise known as "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire-Times-10?" — Sunday's final round of the Tour Championship turned into a decent little affair on its own merits.
The audience was riveted and he was pelted with question after question at the end.
[H]owever, the audience was riveted as Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the guest speaker at the $175-a-plate dinner, stood on the podium and began the customary round of recognition of candidates and incumbents in the room.
Her voice cracks, and her movements are slow, but her wit is razor-sharp, and the audience is riveted by the experience.
In it, a young woman named Delilah (Elizabeth Alderfer) is kidnapped and tortured -- and her video audience is riveted by the sight.
From beginning to end, the audience is riveted by the shots of high-energy youth chanting war-cries, wielding AK47s, gang-raping a woman broadcaster, and cruising into towns on jeeps, waving their arms like one many-tentacled monster.
The message is clear and the audience is riveted.
Writing in The New York Times, Bruce Weber said Mr. Mays delivered "an extraordinary performance," adding that audiences were "riveted by his commitment to the character's self-knowledge and proud eccentricity".
