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spell-bound

ADJECTIVE
  1. having your attention fixated as though by a spell

How To Use spell-bound In A Sentence

  • One of these is to drive ten nails into the door in a pentagonal form -- a very effectual barrier; for the doppie, on beholding it, can neither advance nor recede, but remains there literally spell-bound till the witching-time of night is past, vainly endeavouring to reckon the number of nails, but unable to get beyond the fifth. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852
  • A sprightly Cancan performance by a Russian team and the graceful ballet movements of the Vladimir-Natasha duo had the audience spell-bound.
  • He stood spell-bound, gazing at them the way one would at an apparition suddenly materialising out of the blue.
  • The enchantment which held me spell-bound, intoxicated my mind like fumes of haschisch, and I could hardly recognise myself in this fairy-world character; it required an effort on my part to assure myself of my own identity, and that I was not misled by a dream. French and Oriental Love in a Harem
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