verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
stand
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How long she stood there, transfixed , Luce never knew.
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The mobs standing transfixed in front of his paintings in Washington attest to that.
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She was playing the piano and I stood there transfixed , a little kid with a pin through his jersey from the slums.
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Jane Cox was standing there transfixed , her eyes staring in an inhuman gaze.
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And yet still she stood there, transfixed by the demands in his eyes, powerless to move.
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He might have been a ghost, so did I stand and stare, transfixed .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The sight of the fire transfixed the passersby.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I suppose we were transfixed by this, the aliveness of activities taking place even as the little boy was dying.
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Lena was transfixed by the gaping trough in the road.
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The cat is transfixed by this appealing sight and pounces, sinking its teeth into the prey.
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These scenes transfix us as they transfixed their original viewers.
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Wally was too transfixed by Sincere Number Three to notice the libel.