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Example sentences for "hypnotise"

Lexicographically close words:
hypnoidal; hypnosis; hypnotic; hypnotically; hypnotics; hypnotised; hypnotism; hypnotist; hypnotists; hypnotization
  1. Attempts to hypnotise him failed, and any remonstrance was met with insult.

  2. Voisin, who was one of the physicians on the staff, undertook to hypnotise her on May 31st, at a time when she could only be kept quiet by the strait jacket and bonnet d'irrigation, or perpetual cold douche to the head.

  3. It would be very desirable to hypnotise the person who had succeeded in producing an experimental apparition, of Mr. S.

  4. You will hypnotise him, he will yield very easily, and you will suggest to him very forcibly to forget the girl's existence.

  5. Either she will herself fall into the abnormal state and will answer correctly any questions you put to her, or she will hypnotise you, and you will yourself see--what you wish to see.

  6. Few, if any of them, had even the power necessary to hypnotise an ordinarily strong man in health.

  7. In our case the automatism arising in the motor area plays the part of hypnotist; the suggestions proceeding from it (called objective auto-suggestions) hypnotise the neighbouring areas in which a certain susceptibility has arisen.

  8. I tried to hypnotise the girl; she laughed affectedly and prevented hypnosis for twenty minutes.

  9. After I had suffered the stream of her narrative to flow over me for some ten minutes, I said, "I will try to hypnotise you, perhaps that will do you good.

  10. When I wake I try to hypnotise her; but alas!

  11. Besides, I may be of service, since you can hypnotise me and so learn that which even I myself do not know.

  12. At sunset I try to hypnotise her, but alas!

  13. He must hypnotise me before the dawn, and then I shall be able to speak.

  14. Before sunrise and sunset, however, she is very wakeful and alert; and it has become a habit for Van Helsing to hypnotise her at such times.

  15. I woke Madam Mina, and again tried to hypnotise her; but alas!

  16. Instinctively, with the dawn coming, I turned to Madam Mina, intending to hypnotise her; but she lay in a deep and sudden sleep, from which I could not wake her.

  17. I tried to hypnotise through her sleep, but she made no response, none at all; and the day broke.

  18. At first I believed that poor Sonia was trying to hypnotise herself and intensify her own tortures, but in time a new gravity settled on the faces of the doctor and nurse.

  19. For a space they had both forgotten her hurt, because there are other things than terror which hypnotise pain.

  20. In such a case just hypnotise your patient in the way that I will teach you, then powerfully suggest to him that your treatment is going to cure him--and it will do so.

  21. Yet, how hypnotise a man whose language he could not speak?

  22. They did not know whether to drug you, hypnotise you, kill you.

  23. We were going to hypnotise him, to save him the difficulty of acting.

  24. If Silva is a charlatan, there is no reason why he should hypnotise Miss Vaughan; but if he really wishes to make a priestess of her, then, by the same token, he is sincere and not a charlatan at all.

  25. A sphere like that can hypnotise a man more quickly than anything else on earth, especially when his resistance is lessened, as it is by this heavy perfume.

  26. Mahbub was placed at a little table in the far corner, with his back to us, and SeƱor Silva proceeded to hypnotise him.

  27. It took only a moment, for he could hypnotise Mahbub by pointing his finger at him.

  28. I could hypnotise you and stop your dreaming by suggestion.

  29. But as it is not an attribute of man to have earthly pleasures and peace, he will think falsely; and to be able to think falsely he will hypnotise himself.

  30. If only to know how to make use of those moments of rising and to know how to hypnotise oneself!

  31. Get a notion and think it hard enough, and talk it hard enough, and you'll hypnotise a hundred brains bigger than your own, and sweep the crowd with you.

  32. Voisin, who was one of the physicians on the staff, undertook to hypnotise her on 31st May, at a time when she could only be kept quiet by the strait jacket and bonnet d'irrigation, or perpetual cold douche to the head.

  33. Well, it is quite possible to hypnotise oneself, just as it is quite possible to put oneself to sleep by counting sheep or listening to an imaginary rain.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hypnotise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.