The performer's transfixions of the audience—those moments when she left them utterly still with amazement—became her signature.

During the amputation, the surgeon performed a careful transfixion, passing the knife from side to side through tissue close to the bone to divide the muscles outward.

The audience watched transfixingly as the pianist played the final movement, every face frozen in awe.

Though the knight's tale is old, the sight of the dragon transfixeth all who behold it.