hypnotize

Watching a trickster hypnotize someone in a live performance might impress you.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

I assume he will now hypnotize himself in front of the nearest screen during breakfast instead of asking questions about what he just read.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023

Called the Lasso of Truth, it can hypnotize those in its constraints, return memories, squeeze out the truth or protect people.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2022

He’s telekinetic and can hypnotize others; he can astral project and teleport; and he obviously is a shape-shifter, too.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2021

“Well,” he said at last in his friendly, knowing voice, “what are you going to do, hypnotize me?”

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Others jump on Instagram or TikTok to proclaim that they always hated kittens until one perfect little love nugget materializes at their doorstep and hypnotizes them into bending the knee.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024

And in the short story The Euphio Question, an opportunistic businessman capitalizes on an astronomer’s bizarre discovery to create a “euphoriaphone” that hypnotizes society into complacency.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2022

This soul-scarring movie unfolds as though under a trancelike spell of its own making, one that disorients as much as it hypnotizes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2020

In the first farcical scene, she is hypnotized over and over by accident — and even hypnotizes herself a few times.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2018

Like the fish sort of hypnotizes you into not throwing the harpoon.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

When an actor pretends to be hypnotized by another actor on film, the urge to applaud is not overwhelming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

They alternated between huge smiles and hypnotized stares toward videoboards as the “One Shining Moment” highlight montage that is a tournament-capping tradition began to play.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

How deeply someone can be hypnotized -- known as hypnotizability -- appears to be a stable trait that changes little throughout adulthood, much like personality and IQ.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024

Since then, sumptuous, epic nature documentaries have proliferated, and televised opportunities to be hypnotized by the majesty of nature abound.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

She picked up her washer and dropped it, and we all watched it swing back and forth, back and forth, as if we were getting hypnotized.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

For some the answer is easy–especially now that surfing property sites has become as hypnotizing as scrolling through Instagram or TikTok.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Stewart slowly waved his finger across his face, as if hypnotizing viewers.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025

Kaa the python is dangerous and hypnotizing but also hung up on memories of captivity in a zoo.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

“The waves are moving in many directions and it’s hypnotizing, you sort of suddenly feel like you’re in a whirlpool.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

The Buckeye might be built like a bear, but there was something soft in his smile, hypnotizing, and I knew why immediately.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely