How to Use hypnotic in a Sentence

hypnotic

adjective
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  • Riding in a car often has a hypnotic effect on babies.
  • The psychologist put her into a hypnotic state.
  • The best songs tend to find a hypnotic groove and stick to it.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2023
  • The gem is hypnotic, a miniature green hall of mirrors.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The film builds a hypnotic momentum, along with a quiet sense of dread that sneaks up on you.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
  • With its hypnotic funk and minor piano trills, this soul track speaks to the very hottest of summer days.
    — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Do Nothings hypnotic trail of neroli, fig, and a hint of cedar is the perfect spritz for sweltering days.
    — The Editors, Town & Country, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The group stunned the judges with their hypnotic routine, prompting the Modern Family alum to push her button and send the dancers straight to the live shows.
    — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2022
  • The videos are polished, catchy, and somewhat hypnotic.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The film casts a cynical side-eye at the acquisitive ethos of the Reagan ’80s, told with a hypnotic sense of style.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • The way the computerized effects fade in and out is hypnotic.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Channel Orange starts and ends with the sound of a TV switching stations, and creates a near-hypnotic loop.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2022
  • The second blasts out over a throbbing crowd of mostly gay men, tearing up a dance floor to its hypnotic, trance-like beat.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The music is unexpected: hypnotic Balearic Beats, turned up loud, and on the right side of heart-thumping.
    — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Ahead of the show's March 17 premiere, Eilish shared a clip of a creepy and hypnotic exchange that her character, named Eva, has with Dre.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Toward the end, the song twists into a key change, leading into a hypnotic synth solo.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The Midway, and kept the vibes hypnotic and super ravey for the packed crowd getting down until the early hours of Monday morning.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The 9/11 memorial build session, captured in a time-lapse video, is hypnotic to watch.
    — Daniel Karel, Curbed, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Lambert pays ode to folks out in the country getting in done on this somewhere odd, but strangely hypnotic track.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The film gets your blood pumping from the drop and doesn’t waste a second of its hour-and-forty-minute runtime, propelled all the while by composer Gavin Brivik’s hypnotic score.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The hypnotic music of their homeland still made life a carnival.
    — Miriam Jordan David Cabrera, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • You will be drawn into the hypnotic amber wood and floral notes that make this perfume so compelling.
    — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • But the current live version takes you on a mysterious, hypnotic journey in the dark.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • With its long stretches of silent reflection and haunting images that pierce the soul, this was the year’s most hypnotic shot of pure cinema.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2022
  • At first, Wardlow just mused aloud about whatever was on his mind, his voice calming and hypnotic.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 4 Sep. 2023
  • There is something deep in us that finds warmth and comfort, not just in the heat given off, but in the hypnotic visual performance of the flames dancing before us.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 4 Jan. 2023
  • But Nogueira's voice is low and hypnotic, studded with swear words, delivered on pure throat muscle.
    — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 3 Oct. 2022
  • In long, hypnotic backstories, her voice grows rich and evocative.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • There's not enough space to properly explain how hypnotic and beguiling your role was to young me.
    — Sue Carswell, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The hypnotic vibe and tension is the sum of the incredible vitality of the band and its vigorous spirit, and at the same time Ian Curtis’ farewell lyrics.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 26 May 2023

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