dreamer

Example Sentences

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So it is all the more affecting that for this charming last novel, he left us with a dreamer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

British journalist William Pike, who interviewed Museveni in 1984, described a well-admired man with a "faraway look in his eyes as he spoke, the look of a dreamer, a revolutionary".

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

When I first interviewed him in 2005, he seemed a dreamer with little hope of success and had never launched a single rocket.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

“I’m a dreamer, so I was like, ‘Imagine all the people I could have help me now that I didn’t have 10 years ago,’” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2025

“You think so, huh? You’re a dreamer, Delsie. A dreamer.”

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt