daydreamlike

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for daydreamlike
Adjective
  • Her writing is surreal and inventive, always.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Earlier this week, Anderson made his womenswear debut at Dior, where footwear codes turned equally surreal — from oversized rosette mules to feather-like embellishments.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet these successes were at best partial, and perhaps illusory.
    JENNIFER KAVANAGH, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Everyone has their own analogy to describe Labour’s illusory power.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Specifically, the four customers argued that Hershey's violated Florida Deceptive And Unfair Trade Practices Act, which is designed to protect Floridians from unfair competition, deceptive acts and unethical practices.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • In recent years, users have increasingly been taking to court to challenge allegedly deceptive practices by Amazon.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The winning formula had viewers returning to the show's fictional Louisiana town long after Edward and Bella had their happily ever after.
    Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Does their fictional status matter?
    Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Tipping takes the notion of a spiral in football and runs with it, creating some of the film’s most hallucinatory effects in the process.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Campaigns can be hallucinatory affairs, and this one was full of bizarre moments.
    Chris Megerian, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The new film tries to connect its phantasmagorical elements to regular middle-class lives, but the attempt serves both aspects poorly.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Garcia-Hernandez allegedly has convictions for giving fictitious information, evading arrest, driving while intoxicated and fleeing police.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Supervisors Janet Nguyen and Don Wagner raised concerns at the board’s Tuesday meeting about fictitious registrations following recent news of a dog that was registered to vote in two recent state elections and a lawsuit by the federal government over noncitizen voter records.
    Claire Wang, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Bridge once again hosted a fashion week party in its Milan digs, with the set designed to take guests on an imaginary journey along the Tyrrhenian coast.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Soilonic is trying to make a digital token that isn’t just imaginary money.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Daydreamlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daydreamlike. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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