daydreamer

Example Sentences

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A self-professed daydreamer, Lynch burst onto the scene via the midnight movie circuit with 1977's Eraserhead.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

As a child growing up in Southern California, Octavia Butler was a daydreamer who found comfort in the books she read.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022

This is Square Go, a late-night rumble of a show in which he plays 13-year-old Glaswegian daydreamer Max, hiding in the school toilets with his mate Stevie, awaiting a fight with a bully.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2019

In death, she became the patron saint of every coastal cool girl, every exhausted mother, every daydreamer of plane tickets, every chaser of her next broken heart.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2018

He frowned and saw where he’d messed up: he was a daydreamer.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers