reverie

Example Sentences

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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

Now, shaken from a reverie, reality collides with illusion at the languid pace of a stream.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2025

He is likely to find this reverie equally fantastical.

From Slate • May 8, 2025

"Ring the bell, sound the trumpets reverie, something is done, something is beginning. One of the great wise ones has passed."

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2025

Then he fell into a reverie, stroking his beard, breathing fire, and staring at the paper.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White