How to Use fixate in a Sentence

fixate

verb

• Kassab said she’s been fixated on this goal for the past five years.
  — Andrew Theen | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 24 Nov. 2019
• This is the trap of leisure in a culture fixated on work.
  — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2025
• To be clear, there is no need to or fixate upon this mistake.
  — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2020
• And her mom wasn’t the only star fixated on her in the front row.
  — Jillian Ruffo, PEOPLE.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• Each, mother and son, is fixated on the cough, but what about her words?
  — James Wood, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
• Or a deeply disturbed young woman who fixates on a pop star as a way to cope with grief?
  — Tomi Obaro, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Don’t fixate too much about the minute details — but don’t lose track of them either.
  — Tim Conn, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• Instead, her eyes are fixated on a bottle by the door with a note in it.
  — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 21 June 2017
• But Adams had a habit of fixating on his mistakes.
  — New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
• The team can't fixate on the losses in the same way the fanbase or media does.
  — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
• But, as a girl, she was fixated on sweets for a sense of comfort and reward.
  — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
• My eyes just kind of go, ‘Boom, there’s the picture,’ and kind of just fixate on that.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
• With that acknowledged, a lot of folks will fixate on the Wings for this one.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 16 May 2025
• This stems partly from customers fixating on how many hours of free time a game will chew up.
  — Craig Fehrman, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• Don't fixate on the worst-case scenario or the best-case scenario for your region.
  — Judson Jones and Monica Garrett, CNN, 12 Jan. 2022
• At that point, customers are less likely to fixate on a hit to the wallet that's still weeks away.
  — Rachel Siegel, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
• Don’t fixate on a magic number.
  — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2026
• The wife, who’d been fixated on the cages, shook with a startle, as if waking from a dream.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
• Many of these people are fixated on being in front of the camera.
  — Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
• My mind had fixated on that last image of him watching his sister on the carousel.
  — Adam Messinger, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
• Turning more than few heads in a town that has long been fixated on the Lakers?
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• Both spend most of the season fixating on each other from a distance.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2023
• And then my eyes just turned fast to the President, fixated on him.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 July 2024
• Emotions took over as everyone fixated on the ring in the sky.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
• But Arash seemed fixated on the staircase and aspects of the first floor.
  — Eric Adler, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
• Annie, who was abandoned by her mother, fixates on the idea of finding her once again.
  — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
• Next year’s draft is also why there’s no point in fixating on wins and losses this season.
  — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 13 July 2026
• The district is deeply working class, Wild says, but to fixate on that is too narrow.
  — Julia Terruso, Time, 23 Feb. 2026
• Oh, and Claudius just so happens to have the green eyes that Archie was so fixated on.
  — refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• The piano plays mostly arpeggios; the strings fixate for hundreds of bars on a pair of hazy four-note chords.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026