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entranced

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verb

past tense of entrance

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of entranced
Verb
White’s anthology series has entranced viewers since its premiere in 2021. Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025 Six-year-old Beney, and her mum, were entranced. Megan Feringa, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025 Bowyer describes himself as having grown up being guided by an industrious work ethic and a talent for cutting corners, a kid entranced by the material excess endemic to the region but out of his reach. David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entranced
Adjective
  • Jack Butland’s goal lived a charmed life throughout a flattering 2-1 loss in the Czech Republic, just three days after fans had voiced their displeasure during a 1-1 home draw against Dundee.
    Jack Bantock, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • People in general are just more charmed by you!
    Kyle Thomas, People.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The prose is ecstatic and freaky and muscular.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • If this game was a sign of things to come, Green Bay fans should be ecstatic.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Wilson has been delighted at the response her video has gotten.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Business interests were delighted by the bill’s defeat.
    Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Weatherly has a theory about the couple's enchanted destiny.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • On Tuesday, the billionaire pop star and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end released a joint Instagram post with photographs of their enchanted garden proposal.
    Maggie McGrath, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Today's talkers Travis Kelce is giddy.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The result is a sturdy uptrend, full valuations, hopeful but not overly giddy investor sentiment and solid credit conditions.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Daniel Day-Lewis plays Newland Archer, an attorney engaged to ingenue de la saison May Welland (Winona Ryder) but enraptured by outspoken Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer).
    Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • At the same time, certain ‘magic numbers’ of nucleons, whether protons or neutrons, lead to particularly stable configurations.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • If all Democrats sign the petition, only six Republicans are needed to reach the magic number.
    Lauren Peller, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But the idea has always fascinated him.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • So that image has always fascinated me.
    Maria Reva September 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Entranced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entranced. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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