Sentence examples for stopped transfixed from inspiring English sources

On the Tate Modern bridge the other day I stopped, transfixed.

Almost every traveler passing through the center of the city is bound to have stopped transfixed by the windows of G. Lorenzi, a cutlery shop occupying the best corner on all of Via Montenapoleone.

I once watched my restless twin toddler nieces push book after book aside, then stop, transfixed, when their mother began to read them "Where the Wild Things Are".

Mr. Pinkwater discovered the station by accident, spinning the dial and stopping, transfixed, at the sound of Big Bill Broonzy, while the country singer Laura Cantrell learned of WHVW from her husband, a native of the Poughkeepsie area.

It never reaches the ground and its suspended crash becomes a tragic ballet, with a piano playing, as visitors to the student degree show at Goldsmiths in south London stop transfixed.

Then she stops herself: comically transfixed by the absurdity of falling in love with a manicure.

Elizabeth Lopez, 39, and Lars White, 51, of Catskill, were transfixed, stopping their fast-paced walks to watch the barges pass underneath them — a bridge under a bridge.

The squawking children clambering over mountainous piles of dirty clothes will stop to stare, transfixed, their eyes as glossy as the dark gleaming portholes with things spinning around inside them".

I never forgot that kindness or the way she talked about sharing the stage with the magnificent Kim Stanley in "Bus Stop" and being transfixed by her at every performance.

With the questions having grown stale and the real training all but done, the fight that seemingly everyone can't stop talking about had transfixed into the fight that Rousey can't stop thinking about.

Then suddenly the two actors on whom we were transfixed had stopped speaking.