trance

"I was in a trance," she tells BBC Sport.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

"I was in a trance," he said of the hours leading up to the great decider and, still, the biggest day in Scottish rugby, 36 years on.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

Notably, this trance is one of the few instances in the film when Lilian slips back into English.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026

He stands in a trance and—against his better instincts—jumps into a lifeboat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Ekon looked up, the strange trance instantly broken.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

Even at the races,—yet With his eye-glass tranced and set On some dream-land minaret.

From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye

Boredom was there as a resource for daydreaming, trancing out.”

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2013

The FBI uses all the sleuthing techniques of the computer age, yet its most sophisticated device is Will's brain, trancing itself into the psycho's psyche.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is the poet's song but jingling rhyme?—a play of words in trancing measure?

From The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Neither suggestion satisfied; for the mean lodge was suddenly filled with a great calm, and my whole being was flooded and thrilled with the trancing ecstasy of an ethereal presence.

From Lords of the North by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

Then he had to go back to tricking and trancing again.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by Work Projects Administration