How to Use riveting in a Sentence

riveting

adjective
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  • 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
  • Home Is Where played perhaps the most riveting set of the night.
    — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
  • One of the most riveting scenes so far from the Tokyo Olympics is straight out of Seward.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2021
  • It’s bound to be riveting, even for people who are just part-time fans of the NFL.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Amid a sea of Cartier tomes, this is, without a doubt, the most riveting.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Twice, this taut and riveting duel came down to the right foot of Chase McLaughlin.
    — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • When the show stops preaching and gets down to business it’s riveting.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Hadid is far from the only one who's been sucked into the riveting world of chess over the last few months.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 5 Mar. 2021
  • With a lede like that, a story promises to be riveting.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 14 Feb. 2023
  • To those of us who have been caught in this cycle, each circuit is riveting.
    — Agnes Callard, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • The 12th hole remains the most riveting par 3 in golf, the scene of more collapses than comebacks.
    — Doug Ferguson, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The performances by Kim Tae-ri and Jung Eun-chae are riveting.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • That doggedness is a big part of what has made him, in just two short years, one of the most riveting voices in rock and beyond.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2022
  • But not like the most riveting showman in combat sports can.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2020
  • The whole idea of the conductor was one of the most riveting pieces of theater that Western art had ever come up with.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Aug. 2021
  • These gray zones make the book riveting and morally complex.
    — Bilal Qureshi, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
  • So, this has been so, so intense, so riveting, so scary, so crazy in many respects.
    — CNN, 26 May 2020
  • The Staircase winds up being a meta-text more than a murder mystery—and it’s a riveting one.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 5 May 2022
  • The rivalry surely is more riveting for the state and for college football when both teams are at the top of their games.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • This book grew out of several episodes; this book has a story arc that is riveting and well told.
    — John Brandon, Forbes, 27 June 2021
  • 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
  • This is a riveting account of the almost 50 years of battles between the Comanche Tribe and the United States.
    — Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 5 June 2024
  • Once is a riveting read on fraud and everyone involved in it.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
  • When the poor Kims all start working for the wealthy Parks, the two families’ fates intertwine for a strange and riveting tale of home, of haves and have-nots, and of the ties that bind.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • 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 book opens with a riveting account of the life sentence handed down in 1997 to Warnock’s older half brother.
    — Tammy Joyner, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
  • His bank shot at the buzzer capped one of the most riveting college basketball games ever.
    — Eddie Pells, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Lynch played the detective, and his voice and delivery is a big part of what makes this piece such a riveting, hilarious watch.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Don’t miss this riveting addition to the Family Business universe.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 7 Jan. 2025

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