Usage examples (34)

• It's even better when the story is riveting from the get-go and manages to ramp up the tension with each chapter.
• The fact that this movie, an endless series of talking heads, somehow manages to be riveting, is proof of his concept.
• Winter had been long months in riveting them, and not in a day were they to be broken, not even by the thunderbolt of spring.
• What you're saying is truly riveting, which is why I'm not breaking into asking questions.