How to Use hypnosis in a Sentence

hypnosis

noun

• He underwent hypnosis to treat his fear of water.
• While under hypnosis, she described the horrific accident in detail.
• In a bid to help rid Chris of the urge to smoke, Mrs. Armitage tries hypnosis.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
• The gentle blend of woody spice and rose tones will arouse the senses and pull you in for seductive hypnosis.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• Do people still turn to hypnosis to quit smoking and lose weight?
  — Cotton Codinha, Allure, 21 June 2019
• For this record, the music was written in response to that hypnosis.
  — Troy Reimink, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2017
• That’s not so different from hypnosis —a practice that got a bad rap over the years thanks to mesmerists and stage stunts.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022
• Curry's plans to buy a Bugatti were dashed by Ayesha's hypnosis.
  — Andrew Joseph, USA TODAY, 26 June 2017
• Mortensen has a video of a young man doing a handstand under hypnosis.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 23 Mar. 2018
• And, for some, hypnosis can be a helpful add-on to therapy.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 16 June 2021
• The hypnosis, Schirmer said, brought back memories of a conversation with one of the aliens.
  — oregonlive, 10 June 2021
• The legendary funk master loved the song and sent across the rapid-fire guitar parts which give it an intuitive promise of rhythm hypnosis.
  — Poppy Reid, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2021
• This catchy robotic jingle is a dull hypnosis that few sports-car fans fell into.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 15 Sep. 2020
• The song had all the potential to become a surefire hit, from JC’s come-hither vocals to the snakecharmer hypnosis of the production.
  — Bianca Gracie, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2018
• Hip-hop’s machine rhythm and rock’s tonal smearing combine for hypnosis on two fronts.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2019
• That doesn’t mean that hypnosis should be performed in a vacuum.
  — Cotton Codinha, Allure, 21 June 2019
• Who has hours to sweat over a stove, stirring oneself into hypnosis?
  — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• In touring the show, Mecci and Mochrie discovered that hypnosis would not work as well for more complex scenes.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022
• Kurczewski thought hypnosis could help get a clear story out of Teri.
  — jsonline.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• Gene was formed by this alpine hypnosis, this hushing of human drama.
  — Vogue, 15 Feb. 2018
• Her paper on enhanced story telling in hypnosis was published by the Guild.
  — courant.com, 1 Dec. 2019
• Hypnosis-by-style is partly what's going on here, in other words.
  — Matt Peckham, Time, 28 Aug. 2017
• The clearest description of the suspect, the police told reporters at the time, came from a witness under hypnosis.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• However, one of them looks out at the viewer, resisting the hypnosis.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• On the busiest nights, as the wait time ticked upward, Scholz would watch as waiting guests’ frustration melted away under the hypnosis of Ruggeri’s voice.
  — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2021
• The questioning of this research comes from an unlikely quarter: the study of hypnosis.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2020
• Nonetheless, Machen turned to techniques learned there—probably some kind of self-hypnosis—to help him through the trauma of his wife’s death from cancer in 1899.
  — Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2020
• Some experts think hypnosis for IBS should be the first-line therapy for children, who are more open to hypnosis than adults.
  — Elizabeth Chang, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
• A yoga class after Paris Fashion Week is great, but isn’t a sound bath or hypnosis session even better?
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 21 June 2017
• At times, the thickness of the production approximates the tricks of new age music, sounds that encourage a kind of hypnosis.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024