HYPNOTIC in a Sentence

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Thus we shall have two more hypnotic messages from Mrs. Harker; either or both may possibly throw more light on what is happening.

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 Meanings and Examples of HYPNOTIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hypnotic
 a.  having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific
Classic Sentence:
1  At sunset she made the usual hypnotic report.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  We must try to-night at sunset to make her speak more fully when in her hypnotic state.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  The hypnotic stage was even longer in coming than before; and when it came the time remaining until full sunrise was so short that we began to despair.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  Thus we shall have two more hypnotic messages from Mrs. Harker; either or both may possibly throw more light on what is happening.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  Mrs. Harker yielded to the hypnotic influence even less readily than this morning.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Knowing of the increasing difficulty of procuring the hypnotic trance, Van Helsing began his passes earlier than usual.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  I made a couch with furs, and Madam Mina, lying down, yield herself as usual, but more slow and more short time than ever, to the hypnotic sleep.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  This time she wake with not much trouble, and then I try to put her to hypnotic sleep.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  He paused and gazed at her with his full, hazel eyes, almost hypnotic.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  Carol saw that George Edwin Mott and the blanched Mr. and Mrs. Dawson were not yet hypnotized.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  It was the rapid ticking of the clock which had hypnotized her into hearing the steady hoofs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  But after the first burst of enthusiasm began to die away, and the coloured people began reading the speech in cold type, some of them seemed to feel that they had been hypnotized.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
13  I thought that it was another occasion for hypnotism, and without question went for the Professor.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  When I saw the signs of the dawn I got ready for the hypnotism.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence:
1  Mothers used to read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice.
2  The hypnotic state actually lies somewhere between being awake and being asleep.
3  Prescription sleeping pills are normally classified as sedative hypnotics.