How to Use rapt in a Sentence

rapt

adjective

• The children sat rapt as the puppets danced.
• The students listened with rapt attention.
• From the minute his 8-inch heels click across the stage, the crowd is rapt.
  — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• The place is packed and the audience is rapt for the matinee.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
• Bloom was hired to pay rapt attention to the five-year plan.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2021
• Visitors were rapt in this section and in the one on the rise of al-Qaeda and bin Laden.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
• Thankfully, the academy seems to have been just as rapt as the rest of us were.
  — Washington Post, 13 July 2021
• Joe is more than the sum of his ambitions, and life, the movie reminds us, is more than a rapt nightclub crowd.
  — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
• At the bookstore, Ó Tuama read from his book in front of a rapt audience.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• After the sixth song, Smyers could no longer contain his glee and finally paused to speak to the rapt crowd.
  — Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2021
• His invention was born of a childhood rapt by the beauty of an atlas.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• From the side of the room, Angela Milhouse listened with rapt attention.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• The songs shined broken down to their spare elements, bringing the rapt audience close to tears.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 2 July 2024
• The conference hall, like the Labour Party, was not entirely rapt.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2021
• While Lacoon’s truth is told in less than a dozen lines and he and his sons are devoured by snakes, Sinon has a rapt audience among the Trojans.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• Grim stuff, but the dropout, Strasberg, sat rapt at every performance.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• By all accounts the jurors, too, have paid rapt attention.
  — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 May 2024
• Inside the courtroom, Depp’s fans were rapt by his appearance.
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2022
• One of the young people who paid rapt attention to him was Jamie Bernstein, one of Mr. Bernstein’s three children.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• And in front of a rapt audience, whether sitting in the orchestra or in the second-to-last row, their talent towers.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
• Meanwhile, Sanghui, a transfer student who knew Hae-on only from afar, acts as a stand-in for the rapt audience.
  — Arianna Rebolini, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2021
• In the same city, Anadolu broadcast the rescue of Aysegul Bayir, 35, live to a rapt Turkish audience.
  — Gulsin Harman, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• In the overflow room across from the courtroom, Arbery’s aunt, Thea Brooks, watched the proceedings with rapt attention.
  — Shelia Poole, ajc, 18 Nov. 2021
• On a recent cold and clear night, Kari Lake stood alone on a dark stage, spotlit in front of a rapt crowd, and called on her supporters to vote as if their lives depend on it.
  — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• Arsenio Hall, who in 1989 became the first Black host to helm a late night talk show, sat with his guests on couches and leaned in close with rapt attention.
  — CNN, 7 May 2021
• The companion, a man almost 70 years younger and dressed all in black, sat closer and listened with rapt attention.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
• In this world, however—initially set in the 1960s—the Soviets are the ones who take that giant leap before a rapt and tearful world.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2021
• A lot of guys had heard this before but by the end of the meeting, everyone was sitting up and listening to him in rapt attention.
  — Keith Thursby, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• Watching with rapt attention are several small children, all of whom appear no more than 10 years old.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024
• Of course, actual dancing is not guaranteed — this is Bon Iver, after all — but the crowd’s rapt attention for a set of hometown heroes probably is.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024