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 him as having the "faraway look... of a dreamer, a revolutionary" who was "intensely serious but showed flashes of humour".

From Barron's • Jan. 17, 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

His childhood illness had helped to make him both self-reliant and something of a dreamer, who loved his creature comforts.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin