How to Use trance in a Sentence

trance

noun
Definition of trancenext
Synonyms for trancenext
  • The Vibe: If trance and tech-house had a baby in Ibiza.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 23 June 2023
  • On the streets of New York the trances of strangers’ lives were written on their faces.
    — Leslie Jamison, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Wong flew out and his teammates trudged through the back of the dugout as if in a trance.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The little girl keeps on humming like she’s in a trance.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • His passion is soccer, Ms. Heiman’s the world of trance.
    — Roger Cohen Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • And usually, that’s enough to shake you from the trance of iPhone usage.
    — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Fast forward to three days later, and look still has us in a trance.
    — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Clark, now forty-two, grabs the drawstring of his hoodie with his left hand and stares ahead in a trance.
    — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2022
  • And in that moment, the spell, the trance that had consumed a country, was broken.
    — New York Times, 11 July 2021
  • Will Nancy break out of Vecna's trance, and if so, with what song?
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 May 2022
  • The result is a debut single that leaves you in an epic trance.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The Vibe: The human jungle of a mainstage crowd going nuts for a trance banger.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The group sang in Haitian Creole to drumbeats; some of them moved with trance-like gestures.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Just as the song has you in its trance, Shake enters to break it up with a smooth, ecstatic bridge.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Those who did come choked back tears or went through the motions in a kind of stupefied trance.
    — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2020
  • But when his voice cracks mid-performance, the staff’s trance seems to be broken, and Styles is once again back on the menu.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Not to be zoned out or in a trance exactly, but to be really wrought up in it.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2022
  • And there are issues Smart will need to address with a team that has wandered through the past month in a troubling trance.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Laurence faces the judge and attorneys’ questions with a stolidness, for the most part, that verges on a trance.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2023
  • House, techno and trance albums are also flanked by hip-hop and R&B.
    — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The difficulty too is that your mind might not be telling you that you are immersed in this trance.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Agnetha Faltskog swirled her arms as if in a hippie trance, adding her voice to the chorus.
    — New York Times, 27 May 2022
  • Can listeners who change their minds leave Uta’s trance?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Nov. 2022
  • There’s a feral rawness to its woods, and the roads that lead through them are lonely and trance-inducing.
    — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
  • Rapping at the speed of sound, Rhymes looked to be in a trance; Jay-Z and other Grammys attendees leaped to their feet.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Rose can even travel above the clouds, in a disembodied trance.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2019
  • In our modern context, making time and space to ask questions breaks the trance of rigid thinking.
    — Andrej Jonovic, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • On the wall hung an oil painting of the prince’s mother swathed in voluminous, dark robes, her eyes closed as if in a trance.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The show, about an hour long, whizzed by in a trance of mostly midtempo rockers without gimmicks.
    — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Ground from a mineral called cinnabar, the substance would have sent them into a fevered trance with tremors and delirium.
    — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024

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