How to Use enthrall in a Sentence

enthrall

verb
  • Bravado would see their son and scoop him up and whisk him toward the backstage area on the ship to enthrall the crowd even more.
    Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The first games to really enthrall me were Starcraft and Guild Wars.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2021
  • When the travelers come, there is no shortage of ways to enthrall them.
    Chaney Kwak, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Only time will tell if The Room will continue to enthrall in 2053.
    Donald Liebenson, HWD, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Team sports enthrall us, from the Browns to the women’s national soccer team to the Indians.
    Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The citrusy notes of orange and the musk of marigold will further enthrall you and provide a dose of aromatherapy.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Dec. 2022
  • During the heat of July, thrillers distract us while books about the natural world enthrall us.
    Washington Post, 29 June 2021
  • The Flores stork was just the latest creature to be added to the menagerie of monstrous prehistoric creatures that enthrall us.
    Brian Switek, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2011
  • Mediocre movies don’t do much for me, but Chang’s reviews of them invariably enthrall me.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Gentleman Eau de Parfum will enthrall any man who enjoys the profound scents of whiskey by Givenchy.
    Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • That’s because no AI can match a human’s wit, depth of knowledge, or ability to capture a phrase just right to enthrall the reader.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
  • The former is the home to Penelope, the latest in a line of Living Coast octopi to enthrall crowds by changing color and playing with water toys.
    Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • The notion, resting on legally shaky ground, may enthrall Trump’s critics.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Also: O’Connor’s wardrobe will delight and enthrall the menswear enthusiast in your life.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Given those interests, the music of the ’80s continues to enthrall him.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 16 May 2023
  • Your zone of genius areas are your interests that engage and enthrall you.
    Julia Wuench, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • From cities that took in neighbors fleeing firestorms and towns that enthrall aesthetes worldwide to local celebrations of the weird, the offbeat and the unique, the next big thing is still in the Golden State.
    Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Adam Rapp, and the entire cast and crew, season two is sure to enthrall viewers who enjoy premium content.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2022
  • This next phase of our beloved Walking Dead franchise promises to engage and enthrall faithful viewers.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2023
  • And nothing enthralls him quite like the great Russian imperial palaces.
    Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 1 Feb. 2016
  • This next phase of our beloved ‘Walking Dead’ franchise promises to engage and enthrall faithful viewers.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Jan. 2023
  • This coming-of-age story will resonate with several teens, and the raw humor and engaging comics will enthrall them.
    L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2023
  • His concoctions enthrall and trance those who are moved by his flamboyancy.
    Allyson Portee, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • In the decades since then, Ronald Reagan (always a movie believer) would enthrall himself with dreams of star wars fireworks as part of our defense strategy.
    David Thomson, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Among the film composers presently active in Hollywood studios, there aren’t many whose music can enthrall you without any movie around them.
    John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The dances, here, exist to give us evidence that Chippendales was pleasing crowds, not to seduce or enthrall us really at all.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Yong offers these facts in a generous spirit, clearly aware that part of what will enthrall readers is discovering just how few of these facts many of us have known.
    Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 22 June 2022
  • But at heart, this is a heist saga designed to enthrall in its ingenuity and ambition, one of the more presentable cases of cowboy spycraft from an us-versus-them time.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • But in keeping with Dylan’s lifelong devotion to turning the wheel in another direction, the book isn’t merely a run-through of songs that still enthrall a man in his eighties.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2022
  • This is the proto-modernity that would eventually enthrall Manet and the other Spain-smitten Frenchmen who forged Modern painting in the 1860s.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018

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