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

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

He wasn't around in a time where algorithms could hypnotize people and change their minds.

From Salon • May 21, 2022

He’s telekinetic and can hypnotize others; he can astral project and teleport; and he obviously is a shape-shifter, too.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2021

In the comics there are people with round holes for eyes, others who can hypnotize you instantly, others with secret identities, others who can stretch their faces into any shape at all.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood