dream up
Example Sentences
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An artist couldn’t have dreamed up a better monument to the hubris of overheated development in a city where so many remain unhoused.
From Los Angeles Times
He keeps hens in his hostel room and dreams up improbable schemes to transform India - including planting trees along railway tracks, fertilised by waste from passing trains.
From BBC
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
Bopping to and from recording studios is exactly the type of lifestyle Barrera always dreamed up.
From Los Angeles Times
Never mind that it was said to have been dreamed up by kids at a soda fountain that Short frequented and referred mainly to her upswept hairdo.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
