reverie
Example Sentences
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Watching the film is akin to trying to explain a night’s reverie to a friend, with specific details just out of reach and fading the faster you try to remember them.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
This time, the soloist was the stellar emerging pianist Yunchan Lim, who keeps to himself, either lost in dreamy reverie or, like a jumpy teenager, in ferocious attack mode.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
This moves the contact into the seldom used “X file,” where I can, in my moments of reverie, review and remind myself of those once treasured relationships.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
He is likely to find this reverie equally fantastical.
From Slate • May 8, 2025
When at last she left you, you lapsed at once into deep reverie: you betook yourself slowly to pace the gallery.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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