Examples of reverie in a Sentence
I was lost in reverie and didn't realize my flight was boarding until it was almost too late.
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But the reveries lead Dolores and Maeve (Thandie Newton), a seasoned madame, to start breaking out of their loops and gaining true consciousness.
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Once again, their reveries are pierced by violence.
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You can get lost in the reverie of this tune's magical nostalgia below.
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Reaching the end of the slideshow is a bit like waking from a fashion reverie.
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Is this moment, in fact, one of her dreams—spurred by the reverie update from Season 1?
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The next persona is Shipwrecked Sadie (Christina Day), a British fop in a court suit who has escaped from pirates and has a reverie about gender identity.
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The difference between Trump and Mitty is that the fictional character kept his reveries private, while the president constantly blurts them out.
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Again, Maoz wants to plumb the absurd monotony of the situation, turning the boring routine of Jonathan’s job (occasionally letting a car through the barrier after inspecting its occupants) into a sort of reverie.
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Origin and Etymology of reverie
First Known Use: 1654
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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contemplation, meditation, musing;
absentmindedness, absorption, abstraction, preoccupation;
chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, hallucination, illusion, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream;
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