(1) Plunging from his cheetah-drawn chariot, Bacchus looses arrows of longing from his eyes at Ariadne, and transfixes her in mid-flight.

(2) By the time I got to the Mexican trip toward the end of the novel, I was transfixed .

(3) Nobody else even batted an eyelid, but I was just transfixed , with chills literally running up my spine.

(4) Will we ever know all the reasons why people are transfixed by these images?

(5) I was transfixed with fear and the sheer beauty of the scene.

(6) His comment was so random it shook me from my transfixion .

(7) Kiko looks up almost painfully and I'm transfixed at the depth of horror I see in his blue eyes.

(8) I was transfixed by the jostling crowds, the blasting horns.

(9) Shoppers in the High Street were confused by the police presence and scores of people were transfixed on the sky as the helicopter hovered above.

(10) I was too transfixed on his twitch to let that happen.

(11) At night I am transfixed by the gentle motion of the great hull accompanied by the hypnotic creaking of richly-grained wood.

(12) If people were not transfixed on the band, they at least ceased to idly chatter.

(13) As those of you who have seen gamelan dance can imagine, I was totally transfixed .

(14) We were transfixed , and used to wonder whether all the women in England were like that.

(15) No-one else seemed much moved by this, but I was transfixed .

(16) I quickly asked her where the pain was, and while transfixing me with a hard look, she pointed to her chest.

(17) But we're simultaneously transfixed by the scale of the event, excited by its uncommon nature.

(18) Alas for poor Bill, more arrows would soon pierce him than transfixed Saint Sebastian.

(19) At one point I even forgot the band were there, I was so transfixed with the visuals, which included lots of period footage of railways.

(20) I was transfixed , wondering if the lead singer was male or female.