Example Sentences

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He was in last week's revival, heavy, slavish, magnificent as he sang his one song, half-hypnotized by it.

From Time Magazine Archive

But within a day of Jean-Luc Taron's murder, the case took a bizarre turn, and before the week was out Paris had been half-hypnotized with horror.

From Time Magazine Archive

These slight sounds might furnish valuable cues to a person with acute hearing, or to a half-hypnotized person whose normal hearing was sharpened.

From Time Magazine Archive

Across his half-hypnotized consciousness little threads of burning fancy kept shooting.

From The Patrician by Galsworthy, John

Next he was half-hypnotized by the voluble man's stream of rapid talk.

From Mixed Faces by Norton, Roy