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You can use it to describe someone who is enthralled by something, usually with a strong positive emotion. For example, "The crowd was rapt as they watched the incredible performance."
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rapt
adjective
Snatched, taken away; abducted.
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Eva Clarke continues the story of her mother's survival, and her own birth, to a rapt young audience, after which we drive through late winter sun to Eva's home in Cambridge, to which her mother recently moved from Cardiff.
Nothing was happening, but they were still rapt.
Sue Johnston, the acclaimed actor who formerly starred in the Liverpool soap opera Brookside, a long-term supporter of the Hillsborough families, read lyrics from the Beatles song In My Life to a rapt reception.
Chicago is a city with a rich musical tradition in hip-hop, and Lollapalooza's diverse audience insures an audience with rapt attention.
Beyoncé also made an unannounced appearance, leading a rapt audience of fans and music executives through a soaring singalong of her latest single XO.
It did not matter so much in Gladstone's time – they would sit rapt for hours, spellbound by his oratory – but now they run everywhere and annoy the older members by sending disrespectful text messages about them to Channel 4 News.
It's here that The Duke of Burgundy strikes an innovative note: the film is set in a fantastical world populated only by women, all of whom are rapt attendees of drolly dull entomology lectures.
The audience of this Essex dormitory town were rapt.
An Evans session at a night club had an almost reverential air, as the rapt audience leaned forward to catch every delicate note, each piquant voicing that distinguished a refinement unique in jazz.
The poet-psychiatrist might even enjoy pleading his case helped by clever lawyers before a rapt world audience.It is far from sure, of course, that his demise would secure peace, let alone harmony.
THE dawn of the planet of the smartphones came in January 2007, when Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, in front of a rapt audience of Apple acolytes, brandished a slab of plastic, metal and silicon not much bigger than a Kit Kat.
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