Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for trance. Search instead for tranqs.
Definitions

trance

[trans, trahns] / træns, trɑns /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

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

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

The rushing double-time builds and releases of trance are heard on “Love Sensation.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 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

Nate stood there until finally a cannon blast from somewhere very close jolted him out of his trance.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis

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

No gossamer adrift on the wind was more a creature of the air, no tranced ephemera more the genius of motion.

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

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

It's roof star-pictured Nature's ceiling, Where, trancing the rapt spirit's feeling, And God Himself to man revealing, Th' harmonious spheres Make music, though unheard their pealing By mortal ears!

From The Soul of the Indian by Charles Alexander Eastman

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




Vocabulary lists containing trance


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 12,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training