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.
  • William came from the trance, club, and acid-house scene.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Pulling us into a trance-like state.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Pulling us into a trance-like state.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2026
  • But don’t be fooled by the red planet’s Venusian trance.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • John whistles an old tune, a fragile attempt to break her trance.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Nothing can distract her; she’s gone into a kind of trance.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The trance-y, heavy thud of techno pounds out of the Servis soundsystem.
    — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024
  • But there is no trance, only the attempt to clear the good name of all reptiles.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Almost to hit a trance or meditative state.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 18 May 2026
  • Sound, light, and vibration/ Reshape our perceptions/ Pulling us into a trance-like state.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Swedish pop sensation Zara Larsson has the world in a trance.
    — Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Jamie hesitated and then, in an actorly kind of trance, came over and joined her on the bed.
    — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Wendy slips into a trance state and begins to channel Lizzo.
    — Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
  • My deep tissue massage using warm basalt stones and a local scrub made with salt from the nearby ponds left me in a dreamlike trance.
    — Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Chamomile softens the flame, vanilla sweetens the smoke, and the result is all loving, never strange… a total trance.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Odyssey also finds the producer, whose work pioneered the future bass genre, leaning into house, tech house and trance of the first time.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Matisse dressed the part of a British gentleman and gazed at his conversation partners with a serenity that bordered on a trance.
    — Christopher C. Gorham september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Monk’s music contorts into an ecstatic dance, one more befitting of a ritual trance state than a night at the Five Spot.
    — Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 11 May 2026
  • Anywhere evokes this meditative feeling in its sprawling mix of trance, downtempo, and ambient.
    — Billie Bugara, Pitchfork, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Then, the repetitive descending melody is interrupted and restarts; in this musical rupture the trance is broken.
    — Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Giles does this by putting Buffy into a trance with a crystal and then injecting her with muscle relaxants and adrenaline suppressors.
    — ArsTechnica, 7 June 2026
  • Until that point, many of Max’s scenes outside of Vecna’s prison had been in a state of unconsciousness; back in Hawkins, she’s been stuck in a two-year trance.
    — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2025
  • In that film, unassuming victims are put into a hypnotic trance by a psychic killer to then do his murdering for him, only for that violence to become even more contagious.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Three years after their auspicious debut, the young Chicago rock trio’s new album features this insatiable lead single — a quick, crunchy guitar track that’s been putting me in a trance for months.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • At the hillside Sense Spa, Mr Xong, a village healer and trance dancer, prepares Hmong remedies using rare forest herbs.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2026
  • At one point during a trance, Nancy walked through Vecna’s memories and learned his backstory as the troubled Henry Creel.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Splayed out across Bulgarian folk music, trance beats, bruxaria atmospheres, samba, and even bits of nueva ola, Free Spirits feels dialed all the way up.
    — Maria Nenet Barrios, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Somewhere around the seventh inning, the gaggle of small children in the house conspired, without adult aid or input, to turn off the lights in a bedroom, plug in a strobe light, cue up a trance song on the speaker, and begin to mosh.
    — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025

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