hypnotize

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

I knew what she meant: I’d only gotten acupuncture once, despite her promise that bodywork could “unstick” the trauma; I refused to let Dr. M hypnotize me.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2024

This preschool teacher's voice is meant to hypnotize us and pull us along.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2024

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

I thought the spinning wheel might even hypnotize him, like in an old movie I’d seen with Ms. Mac.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

It’s a disconcerting choice, one that hypnotizes as much as it unnerves.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024

Their drumming almost hypnotizes me; I can sit there for an hour listening to them.

From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023

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

Meanwhile, Alex G’s melancholic guitar-centric score hypnotizes by layering unnerving and soothing elements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

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

“I Saw the TV Glow” is a claustrophobic mood piece that taps into the hollowness of growing up hypnotized by the screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 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

As humans who fundamentally want to be happy and don’t want to suffer, we can choose not to be seduced and hypnotized by the excitement, greed and competitiveness of the tech wizards in Silicon Valley.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

And the longer I stood there, the more I became like—sorta hypnotized by the slick whistlin’ of the cars as they rushed beneath us.

From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper

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

The surreal, visually hypnotizing production by Italian director Romeo Castellucci made little effort to make narrative sense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2024

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

Above them, suspended from a wire, a tinplate clockwork aquaplane with wooden pontoons and a rotating propeller makes an electric, hypnotizing orbit.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr