Definitions

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  • adverb In an enthralling way.

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  • adverb in a bewitching manner

Etymologies

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enthralling +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Perhaps that's because its United States ambassador is mole poblano, the deep-brown, enthrallingly sweet sauce that blankets chicken in restaurants from Albany to Albuquerque.

    Holy-Moly Lobster Mole J.J. Goode 2011

  • If you are tired of the upgrade race or feel you can't justify the expense, you at least have the knowledge that iOS 5 will transform your existing iPhone enthrallingly.

    iPhone 4S: Stephen Fry's review 2011

  • Perhaps that's because its United States ambassador is mole poblano, the deep-brown, enthrallingly sweet sauce that blankets chicken in restaurants from Albany to Albuquerque.

    Holy-Moly Lobster Mole J.J. Goode 2011

  • All these stages of his life, and the great technical advances Muybridge achieved (such as his "mammoth" negatives — there are lots of examples of prints from these), are enthrallingly documented in the Tate Britain show.

    Tate Britain Show Gives Muybridge His Artistic Due 2010

  • Part of what makes "Joe Turner" so enthrallingly rich and strange is that it fuses the no-nonsense kitchen-sink naturalism of "Fences," Wilson's 1983 masterpiece, with a more explicitly poetic style of dramaturgy.

    August Wilson's Gone and Come 2009

  • Then I sat and watched an enthrallingly quirky documentary on the telly about this man with three wives and...knitted the toe perfectly, first time, with only about two glances at the pattern and no row tally at all.

    Falling Leaves. Spinningfishwife 2007

  • Then I sat and watched an enthrallingly quirky documentary on the telly about this man with three wives and...knitted the toe perfectly, first time, with only about two glances at the pattern and no row tally at all.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Spinningfishwife 2007

  • British crime novel by Jim Kelly, The Water Clock my only comment is that the protagonist has extremely peculiar taste in drinks; more enthrallingly, I'm halfway through a crazy great book I'm reviewing for the Village Voice.

    I read a quite OK Jenny Davidson 2005

  • British crime novel by Jim Kelly, The Water Clock my only comment is that the protagonist has extremely peculiar taste in drinks; more enthrallingly, I'm halfway through a crazy great book I'm reviewing for the Village Voice.

    Archive 2005-04-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • Sara's flight from her Long Island home to nearby Manhattan is doomed to be discovered, but who will find her first and what will result remains enthrallingly uncertain.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

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