How to Use fixate in a Sentence
fixate
verb-
Now is the time to fixate on the present, not the past.
— Amy Zegart, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2023 -
But the key is to stop fixating on what the market will do.
— Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2024 -
Kassab said she’s been fixated on this goal for the past five years.
— Andrew Theen | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 24 Nov. 2019 -
Don’t fixate too much about the minute details — but don’t lose track of them either.
— Tim Conn, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021 -
Or a deeply disturbed young woman who fixates on a pop star as a way to cope with grief?
— Tomi Obaro, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023 -
Sadly, there are men out there who do fixate on such things.
— Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 6 June 2024 -
Don't fixate on the worst-case scenario or the best-case scenario for your region.
— Judson Jones and Monica Garrett, CNN, 12 Jan. 2022 -
To be clear, there is no need to or fixate upon this mistake.
— Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2020 -
And then my eyes just turned fast to the President, fixated on him.
— Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 July 2024 -
Turning more than few heads in a town that has long been fixated on the Lakers?
— Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019 -
For most of us, our grooming regimen fixates on the face.
— Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 1 May 2023 -
Most of the time, Bostonians are fixated on trying to solve problems — our own, the country’s, and the world’s.
— BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023 -
But the Commodores have too much depth to get rattled this close to a goal they've been fixated on all season.
— Eric Single, SI.com, 24 June 2019 -
Emotions took over as everyone fixated on the ring in the sky.
— Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024 -
Like many girls her age, she was fixated on her body image.
— Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 26 July 2019 -
The Lions want to retrain that energy but can’t fixate too much on the recent past.
— Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 30 July 2022 -
Both spend most of the season fixating on each other from a distance.
— Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2023 -
The seething lyrics fixate on the lowliness of the human condition.
— Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021 -
His eyes fixated on the parents and students shuffling in before the bell.
— Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023 -
But a male student joins her class at the end of her second semester and begins to fixate on her.
— Esther Wang, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2021 -
Sposato said his critics fixate on his support for Trump.
— Mick Dumke, ProPublica, 18 Mar. 2020 -
That is something that I’m fixated on, for lack of a better reason.
— Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 6 Sep. 2023 -
But plenty of others affected by the movie still fixate on it.
— Brett Williams, Men's Health, 27 Sep. 2022 -
These past few weeks, as we have been fixated on what's happening in the House and maybe in the Senate, tell us what Giuliani's been up to.
— NBC News, 30 Dec. 2019 -
But while Washington fixates on its palace dramas, Afghanistan is on a knife-edge.
— Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019 -
Plus, royal fans were likely not fixated on Harry's footwear when the most stylish guest at the wedding was his plus one.
— Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Aug. 2018 -
But there comes a time—March, to be exact—when my brain gives up on seasonality and starts to fixate on spring.
— Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2021 -
This Shōgun has many hearts and many points of view, rather than fixating on the simplistic stranger in a strange land story from the Eighties.
— Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024 -
But through it all, Qantas remained fixated on a key project: Project Sunrise.
— Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024 -
But fans have especially fixated on the latest breakup, that of Marissa and Ramses.
— Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 24 Oct. 2024
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