How to Use hypnotic in a Sentence

hypnotic

adjective

• 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
• Here is a selection for March babies and jewelry fans who want to feel the tranquility of this hypnotic gem.
  — Beth Bernstein, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Rakim’s rapping on Paid in Full set the precedent for other MCs to follow, with his lyrical dexterity and hypnotic cadence.
  — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 27 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024