Verb (used with object), : to be hypnotically entranced. From Dictionary.com.
They were entranced from the moment they saw her movie poster. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
I absolutely loved this book and was entranced from the moment I started reading. From Wordnik.com. [Reader reviews of Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin.] Reference
He has left to Egypt as good as spin entranced, mesmerized, drugged by Cleopatra. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
And how they were suckered into even thinking about it .... let alone being 'entranced'. From Wordnik.com. [Liberty Has Been Lost] Reference
Be "entranced" by this moaning indie-bollocks if you will, but I for one couldn't give a toss about this or any other Saddle Creek band. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference
To tell you the truth, I’m kind of entranced with this worldview. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » SINK METAPHORS, TOAST FAIRIES, AND WRITING] Reference
Says the entranced Bink: "I can't wait to put them on.". From Wordnik.com. [CHILDREN'S BOOKS] Reference
But most of all, he's simply entranced by the whole era. From Wordnik.com. [Founding Fathers: John Adams Is In The House] Reference
One more pretty boy, already entranced, already far-gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Peacock King: Book 1, Chapter 1] Reference
This was the only time I ever watched golf, and I was entranced. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Lolly seemed bored by all this, but Ezra was wholly entranced. From Wordnik.com. [Bread, Fish, Serpent, Stone] Reference
William is entranced by Anna's world -- and mortified by his own. From Wordnik.com. [In Love In London Town] Reference
What endowment wouldn't be entranced by that kind of enhancement?. From Wordnik.com. [The Toast Of The Town, Toasted] Reference
She stared with blind eyes, entranced by the effect of his touch. From Wordnik.com. [Paper Hearts] Reference
At 14, entranced by Clara Rockmore, Bob Moog made his first theremin. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, what's that sound: Moog synthesisers] Reference
She let out a small gasp, entranced by the cherry trees in full bloom. From Wordnik.com. [Paper Hearts] Reference
She became entranced with fashion magazines in her formative teen years. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia G. Yerman: Compulsive Shopping - The Closeted Addiction] Reference
Life after life he witnessed and he became entranced by the idea of love. From Wordnik.com. [Persephone] Reference
It was the story of Icarus, and the boys sat entranced by what they heard. From Wordnik.com. [Bonfire] Reference
It had the two of us entranced and in tears for the same and different reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Warner: Steve Jobs and Barnes & Noble] Reference
The younger women are particularly entranced, unable to resist his gentle soul. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting for the Light] Reference
I sat at one of the little tables with which the room was dotted, listening entranced. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Federico, unheeded in the bustle of such important business, remained like one entranced. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
The table huddles around entranced like a primitive tribe gasping at the discovery of fire. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Villency: Testing the Torch] Reference
The boy stands at the water's edge, hands jammed in jeans pockets, entranced by the struggle. From Wordnik.com. [IMPACT] Reference
The garden was a tangle of the plants that have entranced me since they broke ground in spring. From Wordnik.com. [Summer podding] Reference
John Midgley is in love with potatoes, and he is also entranced with beans, olive oil and garlic. From Wordnik.com. [BEANS 'N' GREENS GO GLAMOROUS] Reference
I sit entranced in the same way I listen when my dad recounts his escapades from World War Two. From Wordnik.com. [Red Fox Rampant] Reference
In the fall of 1975, I read the journals of Lewis and Clark -- and was entranced from the first sentence. From Wordnik.com. [On The Trail Of Lewis And Clark] Reference
She gives a fierce, committed performance that captures Evita's steely will, if not the charisma that entranced a nation. From Wordnik.com. [Madonna Tangos With Evita] Reference
She's almost borderline under a spell: she is just entranced by him, and that kind of causes her to become a bit wayward. From Wordnik.com. [How to Bewitch a Wizard] Reference
He became entranced by the mysticism of Hasidic practice: its meditative prayer, parables, ecstatic worship and embrace of Kabbalah. From Wordnik.com. [Kabbalah: Feeling The Spirit Of Prayer] Reference
Last year -- through about April -- many starry-eyed shareholders were entranced by all things that could be categorized as New Economy. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Not Get Carried Away] Reference
I could tell by the end of the evening she was, I don't want to say entranced, but she was obviously impressed, and she'd had a good time. From Wordnik.com. ['Dear Diary: Last Night I Washed Socks'] Reference
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