Example Sentences

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He kept his piercing green eyes largely hidden, ominously, behind dark glasses, only removing them to hypnotise his victims.

From BBC • May 9, 2023

"A lot of the stuff you don't do anyway. You don't hypnotise people," he told local news site AL.com.

From BBC • May 21, 2021

Price told the jury he had done nothing to be ashamed of and had said he did not know how to hypnotise anybody.

From BBC • May 16, 2017

He's also been learning autogenic training to hypnotise himself.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2013

At sunset I try to hypnotise her, but alas! with no effect; the power has grown less and less with each day, and to-night it fail me altogether.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker