How to Use riveting in a Sentence

riveting

adjective
  • The next act was a lot less riveting.
    — The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • To those of us who have been caught in this cycle, each circuit is riveting.
    — Agnes Callard, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • Two of the league’s riveting figures clashed.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 9 May 2026
  • If going to countless bars does not sound riveting to you, don’t do that.
    — Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 5 Sep. 2017
  • In a riveting final sequence, the whole cast filled the stage.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • But to see the story unfold is just riveting.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 1 Feb. 2026
  • So, this has been so, so intense, so riveting, so scary, so crazy in many respects.
    — CNN, 26 May 2020
  • The two will be in the final pairing in what has the shape of a riveting final round.
    — Mike Hutton, Post-Tribune, 25 June 2017
  • Home Is Where played perhaps the most riveting set of the night.
    — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Once is a riveting read on fraud and everyone involved in it.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The drama in his courtroom proved as riveting as any daytime soap opera.
    — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The riveting match was an anti-climax, as far as the team score was concerned.
    — Lewis Bagley, Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2018
  • The new format might lead to some riveting action inside the three-point line.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • The outcome of the trial is, in a way, the movie’s least riveting aspect.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The horror and action set pieces are riveting.
    — Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Its twists and turns don’t always pay off, but overall, the series is a riveting watch.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 May 2025
  • Amid a sea of Cartier tomes, this is, without a doubt, the most riveting.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Of all the hires Auburn could make, Deion Sanders would be the most riveting.
    — Richard Silva, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
  • 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 riveting prose, Li — the sisters’ niece — brings their stories to life.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • That’s why this tournament is so riveting.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In other words, the fascists told a more riveting story.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The novel contains riveting dialogue, words that dance around what cannot be said.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Save it for the evening—and any piece of trash flickering across your TV screen will be riveting.
    — Longreads, 9 Jan. 2016
  • All of this, mind you, is far more riveting than the car chase scenes in Disclosure Day.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 June 2026
  • It’s bound to be riveting, even for people who are just part-time fans of the NFL.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Rio’s debut novel is a riveting read with a haunting ending.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025

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