How to Use fascinate in a Sentence

fascinate

verb
Definition of fascinatenext
Synonyms for fascinatenext
  • Her paintings never fail to fascinate.
  • And that fascinated me, the strength of his north star.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
  • We’ve always been fascinated by the trees, in which some of the trees exceed 4,000 years in age.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
  • More than the movie, I was really fascinated by the creation of the project.
    — Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
  • But [the script] had the monologue, and what fascinated me was the monologue was real.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Growing up on the Isle of Wight, she is fascinated by fossils that wash up on the shore.
    — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Gone are the days of just rolling a ball around or being fascinated by their face in a mirror.
    — Jessica Booth, Parents, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Here are six queens, among many, to inspire, fascinate — and to follow on YouTube.
    — Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
  • This has to do, partly, with why we are fascinated by heroes in the first place.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In the sweet video, Kelly's 13-month-old son Sidney sits on his mom's lap and is fascinated by a dog.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
  • But Waller, 60, who co-owns a neon sign shop in Somerville and has long been fascinated by Graves Light, always hoped to bring it back.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • At one point, Simon tells Gibney that he is fascinated by the way songs change over time.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Even as a Cow Girl, people are fascinated with my body parts, or so a little bird told me.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Eric Ries and his ideas from The Lean Startup also fascinate me.
    — Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • In the years since, the pinwheels have continued to fascinate, beguile and confound us.
    — Peter Tuthill, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • It was named Utopia by German settlers, who were said to have been fascinated by the abundance of rabbits that were easy to catch.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But Trump is acutely fascinated by it and fearful of it.
    — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • What fascinated me was that every single oil well in Kuwait was set on fire.
    — Roberto Brunelli, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Wanja grew up in Kenya, where she was fascinated by insects as a girl.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Most of them have to do with the fact that people are endlessly fascinated by Taylor Swift.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Freddie Mercury may have died in 1991, but the world is still fascinated by the former Queen frontman.
    — Clare Fisher, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Netflix’s mega-hit dating show Love is Blind is back— with viewers once again fascinated with the love-seekers in the pods.
    — Lea Lane, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • As a northern white male, I was fascinated by the authentic feel to this alien world, and fully engaged with the fate of this woman from the very start.
    — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • They’re fascinated by the way the animals somehow know which plants—and which parts of the plants—are most nutritious at different times of the year.
    — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • From Tori Amos to No Doubt, the girl is fascinated by her predecessors.
    — Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The story of the Titanic fascinates people to this day for many reasons, Mr. Ballard said.
    — Rodrique Ngowi and Mark Pratt, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Young Israelis and American Jews came in droves over the past 15 years, fascinated by the city’s laissez-faire vibe, buzzing nightlife and low cost of living.
    — Kirsten Grieshaber, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • Young Israelis and American Jews came in droves over the past 15 years, fascinated by the city’s laissez-faire vibe, buzzing nightlife, and low cost of living.
    — Kirsten Grieshaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2023
  • These early trips instilled a desire in me to live abroad and the United States had always fascinated me.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • These birds are the dinosaurs of the title, as Millet loves to riff on the idea that birds are the living descendants of those ancient creatures that so fascinate us.
    — Martin Wolk, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022

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