Sentence examples for listened transfixed from inspiring English sources

I listened, transfixed, beside the sled.

My colleagues listened, transfixed, and when I got to the end they gave me a standing ovation.

A few years ago at a college reunion, I listened transfixed as the silver-haired philanthropist David Rubenstein urged us "to accelerate" as we entered the last chapters of our lives.

Caught in a strange limbo of not quite knowing if there really was someone who'd mistaken a receiver for a plastic microphone, I listened transfixed for what seemed an eternity.

Flight clubs listened transfixed to his story.

Many of the demonstrators wept at the stories of mothers who had lost their children, listening transfixed to the families shattered by shootings from Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colo., where 15 died last year, to the Michigan elementary school where a 6-year-old girl was killed by a classmate on Feb. 29.

We became transfixed listening to the stories as we surveyed the places they took place.

I am transfixed, listening to them as if under a spell.

The eclectic audience at Joe's Pub seemed transfixed, listening to the fugal dialogue unfold with sparkling clarity.

For most of the day, I sat transfixed listening to their stories.

As someone who writes about art (or tries to, at least), I was transfixed listening to these very normal people talk about their very abnormal ancestry and its effect on their family members.