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How to use trances in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
This actually makes for some funny business, what with all the snapping in out of trances and hypnotized declarations of love that follow.
Hiller's art deals with the transcendental and the visionary, with dreams, trances, hallucinations and altered states of consciousness.
The fits, trances and visions that attended revivalistic religion in this era were seen by many as evidence of the workings of the Holy Spirit.
He was a big, burly, baldish man, patient and good-natured, but given to blank trances of absence of mind.
I've seen the mandalas and lights and patterns of delirium and drug trips, watched the shamans in their trances during field research.
People sitting in the big top were in trances, distracted by the cracking of peanut hulls and dazzled by spangled spandex wardrobes.
They organise dances and gatherings to whip up the spirits, then go into trances.
Songs occasionally break out into well-placed free jazz trances, which offer welcome relief from the sometimes cloying vocals.
The world of dreams, of trances and of visions would have been to them a real and undifferentiated part of their existence.
The medical team literally poked and prodded the girls while they were in trances, seeing if physical pain could wake them.
Ms Vine and Ms Kitson use trances and visions, clairvoyance, dowsing and psychometry trying to pick up stories in the mind from objects to uncover any paranormal activity.
He sat mid-stage with the oud on his lap, going periodically into trances, by turns addressing the audience and, like a traditional conductor, communicating with band members.
The smoking of tobacco, as well as various hallucinogenic drugs, was used to achieve trances and to come into contact with the spirit world.
The approach was to teach patients autohypnosis to replace outdated smoking habits, with at least three daily trances.
Examples from Classical Literature
The business of the angakok is mainly singing incantations and going into trances, for he has no medicines.
Such a condition resembles some hypnotic trances, and some factitious personalities as developed by automatic writing.
At Perugia I had filled a pocket-book with notes on the peasant girl's trances.
In such acts, the mysterious, charismatic mesmerist would showcase his powers by inducing trances in audience members and displaying his control of their every action onstage.
For in spite of his commonplace exterior life Blake was a thorough mystic to whom the angels and spirits that he beheld in trances were at least as real as the material world.
It keeps company with the sallies of the wit and the trances of religion.
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