How to Use riveting in a Sentence

riveting

adjective

• Of all the hires Auburn could make, Deion Sanders would be the most riveting.
  — Richard Silva, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
• The outcome of the trial is, in a way, the movie’s least riveting aspect.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• It’s bound to be riveting, even for people who are just part-time fans of the NFL.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2023
• With a lede like that, a story promises to be riveting.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 14 Feb. 2023
• Yet, in the 60-minute mark of the show, Páez’s lead guitarist — who was clad in black leather pants and a slick blazer — took the spotlight for a riveting three-minute rock solo.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2023
• Once is a riveting read on fraud and everyone involved in it.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
• The game was lost, then won, then lost again, then was flat stolen with a riveting drive that ended with one last gasp with 1:13 remaining.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• The drama in his courtroom proved as riveting as any daytime soap opera.
  — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
• The intimacy and blend so riveting in their music has not worked out as well in their lives.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• From gripping grunge to denim drip, these e-girls have put together some of the most riveting looks on the timeline.
  — Essence Fashion Editors, Essence, 21 Oct. 2022
• To be in their company, and to have this era-defining series back, is riveting.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
• The addictive crime drama is a household name that's spanned 24 seasons, each one as riveting as the last.
  — Amanda Curran, Glamour, 13 Jan. 2023
• The film is a riveting story on a small canvas, confronting big issues.
  — Thinus Ferreira, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
• Such an ordeal, for almost anyone, would be the riveting moment of their lives.
  — Time, 29 Oct. 2022
• Northern Pike Where: Early spring can be a riveting time to target pike.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2024
• The Run-Through With Vogue is a new weekly podcast featuring the most riveting news in fashion and culture.
  — Vogue, 3 Nov. 2022
• It’s a focused, slightly chilly, largely riveting effort that ends both artists’ big years on a high note.
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2022
• This joint biography of the modernist linocut artists Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power is a riveting tale of art and love between the wars.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
• What should be a riveting, incendiary tale fails to spark much tension save in a few scenes – or to match the power of Hamid’s author’s note.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2022
• Rachel Weisz is somehow even more riveting in the dual lead roles than Jeremy Irons was in the original, which is saying a lot.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• Grann’s book — a riveting true crime account of the serial killing of oil-rich members of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma in the 1920s — supports Hoover’s case.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
• Just as riveting as the announcement of Pro Bowl rosters each year is the aftermath with grumbling about players who didn't make the cut.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• The riveting Laure Calamy stars in a timely supply-chain drama.
  — Armond White, National Review, 8 Feb. 2023
• Whatever’s waiting for Navarro, Danvers, and the rest, though, the journey has been riveting so far.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2024
• Who doesn’t love a surprising plot twist and a riveting character arc?
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
• The riveting game included six second-half lead changes and a tying field goal by Alabama in the final minute.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 6 Nov. 2022
• And the show, which in its first season had been widely considered a bore, was instantly riveting.
  — Calum Marsh, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• The film and Colman Domingo’s riveting turn as the openly gay title character should do much to correct that.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• The result is a book that is riveting and darkly funny and, in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.
  — The New York Times Books Staff, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• For the riveting role, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024