Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: riveted
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ɪvətɪd]
Usage examples
  • He kept his eyes riveted on Jean Valjean.
  • She riveted a searching gaze on her brother's face.
  • His hands passed over a riveted joint of metal plates.
  • This overlapped a length of pitted metal, large plates riveted together.
  • We lingered awhile sadly upon our oars, with our eyes riveted upon the spot.
  • My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon.
  • The little boy's eyes were riveted upon the glowing planet overhead, the green planet.
  • About all this there was a nobility of soul--a dignity of candor--which delighted--which enchanted me--which eternally riveted my chains.
  • In marriage and the family, in industry, government, and war, attention is riveted on temporal existences, on the fortunes of particular bodies, natural or corporate.
  • Music screaming, higher, faster, insanely, sending shock after macabre shock thru night air, loosening the stars from their riveted stations. The Piper stretched high, six feet or more, upon his hillock, swaying back and forth, his thin shape attired in brown-cloth.