I slipped nearer the door, imagining that in theirriveted interest I saw my opportunity.
Here he sat, with a calm smile on his aged features, his open eyes riveted seemingly on the name of his friend, perfectly dead.
Every eye that had any outlet for such a purpose, was riveted on the main-deck ports of le Téméraire in expectation of seeing the fire issue from her guns.
Turning to conceal her confusion, she met the eye of Tom Wychecombe riveted on her face, with an expression so sinister, that it caused her to tremble.
My eyes seemed riveted upon him, as he came closer, closer.
For an instant that seemed an age I stood riveted to the spot, my blood congealing, my heart choking me, my tongue pasted to the roof of my mouth.
As Dawson clipped out the words, he held his breath, and kept his gaze riveted on the German's face.
He kept every bit of his attention riveted on his own aircraft.
But peculiar attention on the part of the Chevalier de St. George and his princess to the parents of Fergus and his sister, and to themselves when orphans, had riveted their faith.
Sikandar built against them the famous wall with stones cemented andriveted by iron and copper.
The Ghull, or collar, was also used for a punishment and vermin gathered under it when riveted round the neck: hence Golius calls it "pediculosum columbar.
Why is thy sight still riveted down there Among the mournful, mutilated shades?
They had their hands with serpents bound behind them; These riveted upon their reins the tail And head, and were in front of them entwined.
His tone was loud yet not declamatory, at first in a grumbling, grandfatherly, half-humorous, querulous accent that riveted every ear instantly.
Dead silence followed, and every eye was again riveted on Lynch.
And the traveller, with his eyes still riveted to the second placard, lifted his hand to his hat and saluted it.
All heads were raised, all eyes were riveted upon the spot.
His eyes, riveted upon the placard of the decree, as if he were absorbed in the contemplation of an abyss, were hidden by his downcast lids.
But her eyes were now riveted upon this dark group of objects, whatsoever they might be; doubtless it was something inanimate lying there upon the floor in the hall directly over the conflagration.
The retorts so charged are closed at each end by a gun metal lid riveted on so as to be air tight.
The door is provided with a flange that enters a rubber lined groove in the cylinder, and to it are riveted wrought iron forks that receive the nuts of hinged bolts fixed upon the cylinder.
The stove is supported upon an axle through the intermedium of two angle irons riveted longitudinally upon the cylinder.
It was the face of her husband--and the large full eyes were fixed upon her in a fashion that riveted her own as though attracted by a rattle-snake.
But while the proud mind was debating which ought to be the first to speak, a vision stood between the two which riveted the gaze of both, and turned the current of young Manvers's thoughts.
As he passed slowly out of sight my eyes were riveted on him until a point of the bluff around which he had passed broke the spell.
While the eyes of the world have beenriveted on great actors and on events of an astounding magnitude, the minor details of the struggle have been overlooked.
The corporal kept his eye on that of the speaker, charming him, as it were, into a riveted gaze, in return.
In the spring he had laid the keel and riveted securely to it the squared hackmatack knees.
The boiler, of stout riveted copper plates, had below it an enclosed furnace, from which the flames passed upwards through the water through a funnel.
In construction the Argonaut is shaped something like a huge cigar, her strong steel frames, spaced twenty inches apart, being clad with steel plates 3/8-inch thick double riveted over them.
Marie Vachier, riveted to her arm-chair during seventeen years by paraplegia, not only runs and flies on emerging from the piscina, but finds no trace even of the sores with which her long-enforced immobility had covered her body.
Not only did the Peter's Pence impose hard servitude upon Leo XIII but he was also the prisoner of papal tradition--the eternal King of Rome, riveted to the soil of Rome, unable either to quit the city or to renounce the temporal power.
And thus the Pope was ever in servitude, for if the loss of Rome had freed him of the cares of state, his enforced gratitude for the alms he received still riveted him to earth.
Prince in a despairing tone, "how idiotic it is to be riveted to this room!
Sabathier, likewise riveted to his seat, was waiting for his wife, who had gone to fetch a bunch of grapes for him; whilst Marthe had remained with her brother the missionary, whose faint moan never ceased.
His first impulse, dictated by natural discretion, was to withdraw from the window, but the words he next heard riveted him to the spot.
But now the father and son had accomplished their task; the marvel was created, and stood there riveted to an oak stand, and ready to work as soon as its final toilet should have been performed.
When the young man drew himself up again he found the two black diamonds, those two eyes which were all brightness and intelligence, still riveted on him.
On recognizing her his first impulse was to coldly avert his eyes, but in a second her unusual appearance riveted his attention.
That casual glance had revealed, not far away, a face that with his passion for beauty, at once riveted his attention.
His attention was riveted mainly upon the tableaux being enacted before him.
As they passed the fountain the eye of the youth caught the inscription, "The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life," and he gazed at it with riveted attention.
It was quite in accordance with this nature that his jesting tone and manner suddenly vanished as his gaze became riveted on the ridge to which he had carelessly directed attention.
When he reached it and looked out he saw a most amazing sight indeed, and one that rivetedhis attention.
Thad had his teeth tightly clinched, and his eyes were riveted straight on the road ahead.
But I let him go, unstirring, my eyes riveted upon the other shape, seated there like some grey wraith upon a giant's tombstone, under the high stars.
White," said the Sagamore briefly, his eyes still riveted on the approaching figure, which now I could see was clothed in deerskin shirt and leggins.
His homeliness and anxious sincerity riveted the attention of the most thoughtless; and, as a poet says, "They who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riveted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anchored; fastened; fixed; immovable; intent; settled; staple; stated
