hypnotic

Example Sentences

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Day sings about her recent good fortune in “Halo’s” hypnotic opening track, “Everything I’ve Ever Wanted.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Hoover co-wrote the screenplay alongside Lauren Levine, which is why the film bears the same strangely hypnotic, if confusing, pull as her novels.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

The host handed me a blindfold and Bose noise-canceling headphones, playing the hypnotic sounds of a space drum with birds chirping in the distance.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Labubu hauls, Temu hauls, endless TikToks of nails clicking ASMR-style up and down a color-coded Stanley tumbler—it was a little hypnotic, a little horrifying.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2026

In the adjective, hypnotic, the middle syllable is stressed: hip-NOT-ik. influence.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner