be glued to the spot

He turned to run, but his feet were glued to the spot.

The man below did not see it, although his eyes were glued to the spot.

It didn't, though; it just went on standing where it had stood all along, as if it had been glued to the spot.

The girl was glued to the spot, terror-struck, pop-eyed, quivering, knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last.

I am not terribly interested in new singles, but I was glued to the spot, reading such wonderfully purple prose (That's meant as a compliment).

I have been glued to the spot, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere, my head flung back, eyes locked on the polar darkness in anticipation, but I have never witnessed even a flicker of the auroral luminescence.