trance

Example Sentences

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"I think I was walking around in like a stunned, surprised trance if you like for about three weeks."

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

She dances barefoot in a trance, her skin glowing with sweat, with her hair worn wild and loose.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

Armed with a cut of the film, pillared by the songs he wrote and arranged, Blumberg crafted a score that subtly teed up song melodies and established a sense of spiritual trance.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

But sometime this year, I realized I had drifted into the modern trance of double-screening — phone glowing while the television blared — and something in me rebelled.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2025

Nate stood there until finally a cannon blast from somewhere very close jolted him out of his trance.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis