How to Use fever dream in a Sentence

fever dream

noun
  • Ian Brennan describes writing the latest season of Monster, about the Lizzie Borden case, as a fever dream.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
  • And if the fever dream of a Best Picture nomination does come true, well, YCSE’s haters just might become its waiters at the table of success.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Rankin forgoes talking heads entirely, instead remixing archival footage, animation, and music to trace Mulroney’s rise to power in what feels like an experimental vintage fever dream.
    — Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • This all led to Primetime, Lance Oppenheim’s fever dream of a film which dramatizes the world of To Catch a Predator and builds toward the show’s misbegotten trip to Texas.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The Lake of Dreams show still feels like an oddly charming fever dream—projections, puppetry, and music best experienced from SW, Lakeside, or the aft-deck fantasy bar literally called Aft.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2026

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