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
A 600-pound recluse, Charlie has been rendered virtually immobilized by shame, itself the result of numbing the losses of his life in trancelike binge-eating sessions.
From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2022
Nately, sitting trancelike on the floor of the truck, held his grave young face in both hands and did not answer him.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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