What is "mesmerizes"

Usage examples of "mesmerizes".

The journey, eventless though it has been so far, mesmerizes all those millions who remained behind.

As he stares at the fish it seems to twist in his hand, and its glossy dead eye mesmerizes him.

My legs almost buckle when I see him, my husband standing next to him, my children running past him, like a scene from a film that mesmerizes simply because it is so far outside the scope of one's own imagination.

He knew the appeal of his gaze, that cold green contemplation like the stare of the serpent that mesmerizes a wild bird, and yet he enjoyed looking at her as at an exquisite work of art.