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  • verb Alternative spelling of riveted.

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Examples

  • His eyes were riveted [standardized 'rivetted'] to an undulating,

    Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Various

  • All of them have tags and a collar with the rivetted data plate with name, and owner info.

    Deer Hunting with Dogs 2009

  • All of them have tags and a collar with the rivetted data plate with name, and owner info.

    Deer Hunting with Dogs 2009

  • It's what keeps me both skeptical yet rivetted when it comes to ID.

    A Voice from the Middle Ground 2007

  • I hate to admit it, but I cancelled my New Years travel plans to Tunica, Mississippi because I was so rivetted by the exchange Brayton and Myers had over Dawkins signing of a pettition.

    Clash of the Type A-Type C Titans? 2007

  • Attention is rivetted on what is tangible, useful, instantly available; the stimulus for deeper thought and reflection may be lacking.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Clark, Prehistoric Europe - The economic basis 1966, page 186, reads: "Although there is no direct proof that the rich copper deposits of Etruria began to be worked for the Minoan market, it is suggestive that the earliest metal equipment of Italy should show Early Minoan influence, notably in the daggers with mid-rib and rivetted tang found in cemetaries of the Remedello culture of the Po Valley and in the central Italian Rinaldoni culture."

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • Clark, Prehistoric Europe - The economic basis 1966, page 186, reads: "Although there is no direct proof that the rich copper deposits of Etruria began to be worked for the Minoan market, it is suggestive that the earliest metal equipment of Italy should show Early Minoan influence, notably in the daggers with mid-rib and rivetted tang found in cemetaries of the Remedello culture of the Po Valley and in the central Italian Rinaldoni culture."

    Minoans, Greeks, the Po Valley and Arretium 2009

  • Dr. Marchmont sought to draw his attention another way, but it was rivetted to the spot they were quitting.

    Camilla 2008

  • Eugenia kept her eyes rivetted to the ground; and though she tried, from time to time, to say something to them both, evidently it required her utmost fortitude to remain in the room.

    Camilla 2008

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