Example Sentences

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This girl rage feeling and theme have hypnotized people with its alluring revenge fantasy appeal.

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2023

Unfortunately, we think all that spinning might have hypnotized you into thinking you were a much better team than you actually were.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2021

We have hypnotized ourselves into idiocy, and — surprise! — now we are idiots.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2016

Franz J. Polgar, 79, celebrated mesmerist and mind reader who claimed to have hypnotized more than a million people during his lifetime; of illness resulting from a brain tumor; in Miami.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mere name of "Parliament" seems perpetually to have hypnotized even its best members, and the illusion was at its highest now.

From The Framework of Home Rule by Childers, Erskine