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

I am a dreamer in life, as you will all know, and I want Emery to make it 10 wins in a row.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

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 woke the head of the household, a man with a gray beard and the gaze of a dreamer.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel