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

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

He opens up his eyes like he’s trying to hypnotize me into believing him.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

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

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024

A sporadic character in Matt Groening’s animated science fiction sitcom, “Futurama,” the Hypnotoad is a toad with glowing, oscillating eyes that emits a droning hum as it hypnotizes people and animals.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2023

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

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

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

Adrift, alone and haunted by guilt about that incident in her past, she becomes hypnotized by Peter’s superficially rational-sounding ideas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

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

Dicey was hypnotized by the molten silver of the cloudy islands and not until the veil of fuzzy gray blew across it again did she begin their march of the day.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

For the adventurous, the question could be hypnotizing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

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