dreamer

Example Sentences

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Rothschild, who had already spent years financing agricultural colonies in Ottoman Palestine, regarded Herzl as an energetic but naive dreamer ignorant of the difficult realities on the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

You've always been a dreamer and that's one of your greatest strengths.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 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

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

Those perched on the knitted glave cover released it and it eased back down, swallowing the slice of light and returning the dreamer to darkness.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor