How to Use fixate in a Sentence

fixate

verb

• But the key is to stop fixating on what the market will do.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2024
• Like many girls her age, she was fixated on her body image.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 26 July 2019
• 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
• All of our members want our group to become a team that continually evolves without stagnating or fixating on one thing.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
• Our genetic programming may tell some of us to obsess over social justice and others to fixate on external threats, but most of us care about both.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 10 July 2019
• Her brother Dani, feeling isolated, spends the summer confined to his room, fixated on Miri.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 25 Sep. 2024
• The usually-jubilant third-year safety was almost silent, his mind fixated on the opening day of training camp less than 24 hours away.
  — Parth Upadhyaya, The Denver Post, 22 July 2019
• Yet, the play is fixated on the morality of using other people’s personal stories and passing them off as original ideas.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
• The candidates did not fixate on President Trump, but his presence loomed over the stage, with each candidate using him as a foil to pitch their agendas.
  — CBS News, 27 June 2019
• And that mind, which had spent decades thinking about people’s stories and how to tell them, became fixated on one nagging question: Why had no one ever made a film about Lee Miller?
  — Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024
• Now is the time to fixate on the present, not the past.
  — Amy Zegart, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Emotions took over as everyone fixated on the ring in the sky.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 6 Sep. 2023
• But plenty of others affected by the movie still fixate on it.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 27 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024