hypnotize

Example Sentences

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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

“We were doing an episode where there was a futuristic pet show and I thought it’d be funny if the reason why one animal won was because it had the ability to hypnotize judges.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 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

Like maybe he thought if he repeated my name enough times, he’d hypnotize me into trusting him better.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee