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.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2026
• Fast forward to three days later, and look still has us in a trance.
  — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 16 Oct. 2019
• The result is a debut single that leaves you in an epic trance.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• On the streets of New York the trances of strangers’ lives were written on their faces.
  — Leslie Jamison, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2019
• Not to be zoned out or in a trance exactly, but to be really wrought up in it.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2022
• Will Nancy break out of Vecna's trance, and if so, with what song?
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 May 2022
• And usually, that’s enough to shake you from the trance of iPhone usage.
  — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 9 Dec. 2019
• Rose can even travel above the clouds, in a disembodied trance.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2019
• And in that moment, the spell, the trance that had consumed a country, was broken.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2021
• 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
• Egg-laying turtles are said to be in a trance while concentrating on the task at hand.
  — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• In our modern context, making time and space to ask questions breaks the trance of rigid thinking.
  — Andrej Jonovic, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• House, techno and trance albums are also flanked by hip-hop and R&B.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Wendy slips into a trance state and begins to channel Lizzo.
  — Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
• The show, about an hour long, whizzed by in a trance of mostly midtempo rockers without gimmicks.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024