trance

But deadlines and bosses drew me back into the real world, much as the schoolday and homework and parents broke my TV trance as a kid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

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

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026

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

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025

Without having received physical injuries of any kind, men might begin to tremble or shake uncontrollably; some became like zombies, staring blankly into the distance as though in a trance.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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

It might have been a congress of fireflies tranced in space.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller

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

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

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

Ever, oh ever thus they sing, But to our soul's dull ear belongs Seldom the trancing sense To list the universal worshiping, Thrill with the glorious theme, and drink its eloquence.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various