hypnotize

Example Sentences

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Watching a trickster hypnotize someone in a live performance might impress you.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

Once there, Nandor and Nadja put the anchors to sleep before taking over the newscast to hypnotize their viewers.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2023

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

Though I can hypnotize the mafia and raise the dead at will, I seem incapable of erasing the circles beneath my eyes.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris