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

The goal wasn’t to hypnotize an audience through an emotional narrative.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2023

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

From Salon • May 21, 2022

And the head of Asmodeus Poisonteeth, the giant adder, lay severed upon the ground, its eyes dulled in death, never again to hypnotize another living creature!

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques