How to Use out-of-body in a Sentence

out-of-body

adjective
  • Alysha describes that moment as an out-of-body experience.
    — Meghan O'Brien, NBC news, 7 June 2026
  • Millerd’s sunset proposal was an ‘out-of-body experience’ for Eliza.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Watching Vanderpump Villa is kind of like having an out-of-body experience.
    — Samantha Sasso, Vulture, 22 May 2026
  • Walking into the Oscar party with an Academy Award was a surreal and out-of-body experience.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Some call it life-altering, with out-of-body experiences, incredibly vivid hallucinations, distorted time perception, and… encounters with mysterious entities.
    — Charles Moss, SPIN, 16 July 2026

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