trancelike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The angrier a man got at me, the calmer I felt, and if he started shouting, I would enter a trancelike state, knowing that the real him was being captured in 4K.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2025
The competitors are in a trancelike state, building a stratagem.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2024
In some orders of Sufism, a branch of Islam, whirling dervishes spin in circles as a form of religious dance in which the movement induces a spiritual and trancelike state.
From Scientific American • Mar. 28, 2023
The word roughly translates to “exaltation,” and everything about the music was designed to invoke a trancelike state of ecstasy or transcendence among his listeners.
From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021
She was unable to move when she went into that curious trancelike sleep.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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