Sentence examples for fixated from inspiring English sources

After all, they point out, it's happened before – most famously in Orkney in 1991, when nine children were forcibly removed from their homes following interviews by social workers led by an individual who was subsequently accused of being "fixated on finding satanic abuse".

We all stare, fixated, out of the window.

Related: Oil company bosses' bonuses linked to $1tn spending on extracting fossil fuels Michael Crosby, the resolution's sponsor, said that Exxon is fixated on oil and gas and isn't paying enough attention to renewable energy and climate change.

Juncker is a federalist nightmare who is completely arrogant and totally fixated on future union, he added.

Instead of Louis, US X Factor has LA Reid, a music industry mogul so fixated on competency and product that he instantly drains the fun from any room he steps into.

The frontbenchers and their spads are too fixated on swing voters and marginal seats to care the rest of the time.

The debate has fixated on behavioural economics (rather than the wider evolving behavioural science landscape) and a handful of flagship examples as proof of concept: the towels in the hotel rooms, the organ donation opt outs, the perverse incentives for parents who pick their kids up late etc.

One woman became fixated by me and was threatening violence.

Would Adam Lanza have fixated on something else? Maybe.

Too many people in Washington were fixated on proving an ideological point: that America's values were universal and would be digested effortlessly by people a world away.

But for all these immediate benefits, he risks encouraging the impression that his party is fixated on a subject that most voters do not much care about and at the expense of subjects they do care about, such as jobs, health care and the economy.