How to Use riveting in a Sentence

riveting

adjective

• Of all the hires Auburn could make, Deion Sanders would be the most riveting.
  — Richard Silva, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
• The outcome of the trial is, in a way, the movie’s least riveting aspect.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• Home Is Where played perhaps the most riveting set of the night.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
• One of the most riveting scenes so far from the Tokyo Olympics is straight out of Seward.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2021
• It’s bound to be riveting, even for people who are just part-time fans of the NFL.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2023
• Amid a sea of Cartier tomes, this is, without a doubt, the most riveting.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2024
• When the show stops preaching and gets down to business it’s riveting.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2021
• With a lede like that, a story promises to be riveting.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 14 Feb. 2023
• To those of us who have been caught in this cycle, each circuit is riveting.
  — Agnes Callard, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• The 12th hole remains the most riveting par 3 in golf, the scene of more collapses than comebacks.
  — Doug Ferguson, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2022
• That doggedness is a big part of what has made him, in just two short years, one of the most riveting voices in rock and beyond.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2022
• The whole idea of the conductor was one of the most riveting pieces of theater that Western art had ever come up with.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Aug. 2021
• The Staircase winds up being a meta-text more than a murder mystery—and it’s a riveting one.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 5 May 2022
• This book grew out of several episodes; this book has a story arc that is riveting and well told.
  — John Brandon, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• Yet, in the 60-minute mark of the show, Páez’s lead guitarist — who was clad in black leather pants and a slick blazer — took the spotlight for a riveting three-minute rock solo.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2023
• This is a riveting account of the almost 50 years of battles between the Comanche Tribe and the United States.
  — Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 5 June 2024
• Once is a riveting read on fraud and everyone involved in it.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
• The game was lost, then won, then lost again, then was flat stolen with a riveting drive that ended with one last gasp with 1:13 remaining.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• The book opens with a riveting account of the life sentence handed down in 1997 to Warnock’s older half brother.
  — Tammy Joyner, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
• His bank shot at the buzzer capped one of the most riveting college basketball games ever.
  — Eddie Pells, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2021
• The drama in his courtroom proved as riveting as any daytime soap opera.
  — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
• The intimacy and blend so riveting in their music has not worked out as well in their lives.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• His bank shot at the buzzer vs. UCLA capped one of the most riveting college basketball games ever.
  — Eddie Pells, Star Tribune, 6 Apr. 2021
• Her riveting new legal thriller sounds ripped from the headlines.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 May 2021
• From gripping grunge to denim drip, these e-girls have put together some of the most riveting looks on the timeline.
  — Essence Fashion Editors, Essence, 21 Oct. 2022
• To be in their company, and to have this era-defining series back, is riveting.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
• Dunk tank, musical chairs, hide and seek followed by a very riveting final game of pin the tail on the donkey.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
• The addictive crime drama is a household name that's spanned 24 seasons, each one as riveting as the last.
  — Amanda Curran, Glamour, 13 Jan. 2023
• Though a riveting repeat can bring plenty of personality to any room of the house, wallpaper is often left out of the kitchen conversation.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
• This riveting 1950’s Hollywood saga sees the two women’s stories collide with Salome’s, in unexpected ways.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024