be riveted to someone

be riveted to someone
if your eyes or attention are riveted on or to someone or something, you are so interested or frightened that you cannot stop looking at them

They were riveted to the television screen.

Mitch came up, his eyes riveted on the girl’s face.

Thesaurus: general words meaning to look or not looksynonym to look at someone in a particular wayhyponym
Main entry: rivet

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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