tranced

Example Sentences

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The scenes are ordinary enough — intersections in East London with people going about their normal business — but there’s a tranced stillness about them: a feeling of being in some kind of fugue state.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2018

And so, through some perverse compatibility – those marriages that last for ages because of an insatiable and shared appetite for bickering – they settled into a tranced deadlock.

From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2010

They were the Four Horsemen of America's polo apocalypse and had just left their English opponents tranced and helpless a second time before wondrous revelations of speed, strength, skill with mount and mallet.

From Time Magazine Archive

There, as Frank told the story, she “lays out worksheets, points to one example, then another, then a third. She stands back, with eyes tranced behind her rimless glasses.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

A lovelier vision in the moonlight stands, Than Bard e'er woo'd in fairy lands, Or Faith with tranced eye adored, Floating around our dying Lord.

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by Wilson, John Lyde