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verb

past tense of entrance

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of entranced
Adjective
Onscreen, his hands floated slowly across a sheet of paper, an entranced expression on his face. Thessaly La Force, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 Bay Area News Group After growing up in Baguio City in the Philippines, where dessert often meant treats like fresh mangoes, sticky rice or coconut candy, Elisa Sunga became entranced with baked desserts like cakes when her family moved to Antioch, in the East Bay area, in 2001. Kate Bradshaw, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2026 Pictures of birthday cakes, hospital visits, church functions, and target practice sessions sit beside snaps of a levitating water can, a flying briefcase, or an entranced friend. Shannon Taggart, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
Verb
The look felt right at home on this press tour, adding to her incredible roster of recent looks that have left us mere mortals entranced. Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 16 July 2026 Four-year-old Juni Wahab was entranced by the sight of the swallows and cormorants swooping low overhead and the rushing twists of water. Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026 The nation’s largest retailer has entranced World Cup tourists. Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 8 July 2026 Gollehon witnessed the process, was entranced, and as a teen enrolled in saddlery classes in Spokane, before apprenticing under Bleeker himself. Jeanne Malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026 Kids might be more entranced by the family-friendly Resort Pool and Winding River, the activities at the Reef Rangers Club, and the 500,000-gallon Under the Sea Lagoon that’s home to stingrays, reef fish, and Aldabra tortoises. Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 30 June 2026 The kids, entranced by their phones and tablets, don’t meet up anymore to play dress-up dolls, kick a ball around, or even just talk—not with whole virtual worlds and endless distractions at their eager little fingertips. Justin Chang, New Yorker, 19 June 2026 For those discerning shoppers entranced not by fresh-off-the-runway finds (too common, too mass-produced), but, instead, garments with history and legacy embedded in their seams, these are holy grails. Max Berlinger, Vogue, 11 June 2026 When the British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s work was exhibited at the New Museum in 2017, viewers were entranced by the way her paintings reflected the deep solitude of each of her subjects. Lovia Gyarkye, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entranced
Adjective
  • For years, Coventry had lived a charmed life in the top flight, pulling off a few dramatic escapes either side of a glorious FA Cup success in 1987.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The actor discussed their charmed meet-cute on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2011.
    Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026
Adjective
  • Third, the powder and paint was relentless to the point of ecstatic madness—exactly as Jouvert is meant to be.
    Baz Dreisinger, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Perhaps the Ebelians practiced some kind of ecstatic spirituality.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Their remarks earned cheers and applause, which delighted Demos.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The videos have delighted audiences to such a degree that the content creator says his days toiling outside are decidedly in the past.
    Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 19 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray An enchanted portrait and a life of debauchery are at the core of this lavish literary horror by Oscar Wilde.
    Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Six years later, Frozen 2 took the story beyond Arendelle, as Anna, Elsa, Olaf and Kristoff traveled into an enchanted forest to uncover the source of Elsa’s powers and learn more about their family’s past.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 16 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Audiences, however, have remained enraptured by its enduring story, in which one man’s public (and private) persona crumbles as one woman’s own star rises.
    Nathan Smith, Air Mail, 18 July 2026
  • But ate every single chicken wing, every single Waffle House, every single nugget from Buc-ee's, and were utterly enraptured.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • The tension, the uncertainty, the hovering between bravery and cowardice captures some of what fascinated me in Muriel Rukeyser’s novel Savage Coast.
    Anne E. Fernald, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Garfield remembers being fascinated by the rows of VHS tapes and the possibilities behind their covers.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The result feels a bit like a magic trick, even in this era of supercar projector beams.
    Marco Della Cava, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Glenview Trust, Bloomberg No magic debt-to-GDP ratio signals disaster, since countries with more resilient economies can service more debt.
    Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • After Spain’s historic win was secured, Rodri ran giddy laps of the camp and the smile never dropped.
    Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Nidhi laughed to herself, a soft laugh that contained a question, a giddy, half-serious dare.
    Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026

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“Entranced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entranced. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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