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How to use hypnotic in a sentence

21 example sentences · adjective, noun

Hypnotic means of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism. Example: “James' hypnotic "Mystic Stranger" always blows my mind and you'll find it included in this brilliant set by the sadly underrated Ms Haywood as well as the stunning ballad "Someone".”

Examples of hypnotic by meaning

adjectiveCapturing a person's attention to the exclusion of all else, as if placing them into a trance.

  • James' hypnotic "Mystic Stranger" always blows my mind and you'll find it included in this brilliant set by the sadly underrated Ms Haywood as well as the stunning ballad "Someone".1990, Napfield Limited (publisher), “Mellow Grooves For Your Soul”, in Blues & Soul, numbers 564-575, page 37

nounA soporific substance.

  • "He's had a strong hypnotic administered to him," said the doctor.1929, Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery

More sentences with hypnotic

  • Hugo was a diaper-lover since his early teens when he discovered their hypnotic power.2024 May 7, Martin Coster, chapter 2, in An Unusual Couple, AB Discovery, →ISBN. From the entry diaper-lover
  • The beginning of the zombie dance is driven by the hypnotic rhythms of multiple drums.2011, Stephanie Leigh Batiste, Darkening Mirrors. From the entry zombie dance
  • Some enemies will use Bobble Heads to emit a hypnotic wave.2008, “Story Mode”, in Cory in the House: Instruction Booklet, Burbank, California: Disney Interactive Studios; Nintendo, page 8. From the entry save point
  • The customer stomps toward the double doors, drawn in by hypnotic organ strains.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 182. From the entry stomp
  • If we could acquire language through hypnotic suggestion or through dormiphonics such expectations would be legitimate.1974, Warren C. Born, Toward Student-centered Foreign-language Programs, page 160. From the entry dormiphonics
  • At least 45 minutes was required between administration and peak hypnotic and antisalivary effects.1970, The journal of clinical pharmacology and the journal of new drugs. From the entry antisalivary
  • Adam continued to moan in hypnotic agony.2007, Anthony Gioseffi, Mainframe. From the entry firedragon
  • Like all barbiturates, Seconal is a non-selective central nervous system depressant that is primarily used as a sedative hypnotic.2001 October 14, Jason Burke, “Death of a princess”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry heartrate
  • For the alcoholic there are numerous substitutes: a period of intense diversion and excitement, pressing need for rest, hypnotic sedatives, sleep.1939, Walton Hall Smith, Ferdinand Christian Helwig, Liquor, the Servant of Man, page 193. From the entry hophead
  • He was neither a wit nor a croquet champion, a hypnotic force nor a begetter of amateur theatricals.1911, Saki, “Tobermory”, in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, published 1912, page 30. From the entry begetter
  • When it is known that the patient is a gagger, dentures should not be constructed or even impressions made until after several therapeutic hypnotic sessions.2016, William S. Kroger, Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis in Medicine, Dentistry and Psychology. From the entry gagger
  • He claims that the pendulums can have a hypnotic effect on the sun god and cause him to sink into a long slumber.2014, Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem, Tor Books, →ISBN. From the entry sun god
  • WHY YOU GO THERE Huge fetishizable handbags, subtle jokes, hypnotic jacquard and luscious natural fibers perversely tricked out to look like cheap petroleum knockoffs.2007 August 2, Cintra Wilson, “Prada’s Sassy Sister Knows How to Party”, in New York Times. From the entry fetishizable
  • The violence, when it comes, shocks and awes because the beauty of the preceding scenes has had a hypnotic hold on the viewer.2005, Lloyd Hughes, The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies (Rough Guides Reference), London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry shock and awe
  • Walter is good-naturedly willing to be called a "secondary personality," a "hypnotic impersonation", a "mindkin" (C.D.Broad), a "prosopopesis" (Sudre) or "entelechy" (Driesch).1975, Carl Allanmore Murchison, The case for and against psychical belief, Ayer Publishing, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry prosopopesis
  • Behold the triumph of hypnotic mystification by the might of which the vacuous become profound and the flabby-willed nerve-wreck a heroine of dauntless faith!1911, The Literary Digest - Volume 42, page 684. From the entry nerve-wreck
  • During the “Gayatri Mantra” her voice soared over the hypnotic drone that one hand coaxed from her shruti box, while the other hand energetically massaged the air.2006 December 2, Vivien Schweitzer, “Prayer, Texts and Chants, Along With Some Improv”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry shruti box
  • Typical hypnotic phenomena such as handlock, involuntary body immobility, and selective amnesia were produced by direct suggestion alone, without trance induction, although trance subjects showed more of the phenomena.1963, Ernest Adolf Spiegel, Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry, page 616. From the entry handlock
  • I'm something of a hypnotist myself and I quickly realized that she was in a real hypnotic trance, brought on by Puffy's staring into her eyes."1945 April 9, “Puffy, The Hypnotizing Cat, Named Honorary Feline Society President”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 10 May 2013, page 5. From the entry out on one's feet

Meaning of hypnotic

  1. adjective Of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
  2. adjective Capturing a person's attention to the exclusion of all else, as if placing them into a trance.
  3. adjective Inducing sleep; soporific.

Full definition of hypnotic

Questions about hypnotic in a sentence

How do you use hypnotic in a sentence?
Hypnotic is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “James' hypnotic "Mystic Stranger" always blows my mind and you'll find it included in this brilliant set by the sadly underrated Ms Haywood as well as the stunning ballad "Someone".”
What is a short sentence with hypnotic?
“Adam continued to moan in hypnotic agony.”
What does hypnotic mean?
Hypnotic means of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.

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