dream up

Example Sentences

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As a child, I spent so many nights playing tricks on myself, twisting the shadows from trees outside my window into the most terrifying images my mind could dream up.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

It’s a lot easier to gain mass user adoption if your A.I.’s value proposition includes the ability to dream up a hyperrealistic photograph and make it show up on your phone.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2026

A Brazilian man with a penchant for sporting records breaks a new one after tackling the most boring physical challenge he could dream up: running on a treadmill for 24 hours.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

You can see cool visual responses when asking for sports scores and other queries, and use the image generator Nano Banana and video maker Veo to remix your own media or dream up new visions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Not only was Hagrid twice as tall as anyone else, he kept pointing at perfectly ordinary things like parking meters and saying loudly, “See that, Harry? Things these Muggles dream up, eh?”

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling