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

Artt quickly selects Cormac, “a hunched fellow” with bad eyesight who never tires of telling stories, and Trian, a shy daydreamer who was handed over to the monastery at the age of 13.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2022

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 was also a daydreamer and dawdler, which brought complaints from his teachers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2017

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

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers