How to Use trance in a Sentence

trance

noun

• He was staring out the window in a trance.
• The spiritual healer fell into a trance.
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024