trancelike

IPA: trˈænsɫaɪk

Examples of "trancelike" in Sentences

The woman sighed in disappointment, her expression almost trancelike.
My breathing has caught the right beat for endurance; familiar trancelike scenes glide by.
"I've my own burlap," she answered, staring into nothing, trancelike, fumbling toward the car.
Walking induces a trancelike state that allows the mind freedom and ease and encourages exploration of odd possibilities and improbable connections.
Very few writers induce in their readers the kind of trancelike state, punctuated by frequent “wows,” that most of us associate with much-loved books from childhood.
The score of Zarkana dips into trancelike drones, live drums, throat singing, organ solos, and one swampy-blues number when the clown goes to the purple bubble-wart toad planet, but you're not going to be rocking out to the soundtrack.
It seemed to me, in my trancelike state, that the moment in which the doorknob on the scary door began to rattle — the moment when something on the other side was on the cusp of emerging, with the mortals on this side watching in wide-eyed dread — would be a good place to end.
Chillingo, iPod & iPhone 69p, iPad £1.49 Although sorting animal faces into lines of three or more doesn't immediately sound like something you'd do for fun, Zookeeper's addictive qualities are such that protracted play induces a trancelike state in which the animals almost seem to sort themselves.