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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rivet .
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Examples
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The word riveted the group and all eyes fell to the ground.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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The word riveted the group and all eyes fell to the ground.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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He created a world that you can smell and taste, that you enter in riveted fascination.
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Simenon's is a world that you can smell and taste and that you enter in riveted fascination.
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Simenon's is a world that you can smell and taste and that you enter in riveted fascination.
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The trailer had me riveted from the opening, the way in which it just threw away any pretense to add in dialogue or exposition or, for that matter, an explanation of the movie as it just sticks to the fun parts of a Fugitive meets Rambo kind of movie.
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What leaves the reader riveted is not Lida's obsession with nastiness - disturbing though the murder, rape and homelessness are - but his emotional proximity ...
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What leaves the reader riveted is not Lida's obsession with nastiness - disturbing though the murder, rape and homelessness are - but his emotional proximity ...
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And yet I remember that at that early age -- mayhap under fourteen -- notwithstanding, and through all its incidental attractiveness, he hazarded the opinion to me (and the expression riveted my surprise), that there was feebleness in the structure of the work.
Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912
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The name riveted his consciousness upon the one man of all men upon earth whom he had wanted to meet.
Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 1905
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