daydreams 1 of 2

plural of daydream

daydreams

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of daydream

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of daydreams
Verb
Ellen retreats to her room and daydreams of her father, who understood his headstrong daughter. Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025 In the Netflix dramedy Too Much, a brokenhearted American, Jess, makes the move across the pond, inspired in part by daydreams of stately castles, rolling green hills and dashing gentlemen professing their ardent admiration. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for daydreams
Noun
  • These are not fantasies drummed up by the Left despite claims from Paxton and his most ardent supporters.
    Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The answer isn’t to toggle back and forth between going all out and retreating into pastoral fantasies, but to recognize that for everything, there is a season.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Which life is the one Cora actually dreams of?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Watch Turning Red on Disney+ Ratatouille The 2007 film Ratatouille is about a rat named Remy (Patton Oswalt) who dreams of becoming a chef.
    Sydni Ellis, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement While Gaal steels herself, the force that’s stalked her visions finally arrives, stepping into view with the certainty of someone who’s already seen the ending.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Musk and Bezos have different ideas of what humans’ future in space should look like, and their visions are not mutually exclusive.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Not even Trump can have any illusions now.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Eclipses bring truth to the surface, so don’t cling to illusions.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Yet the latest iteration also imagines life at anchor with an indoor-outdoor relationship across two capacious exterior decks, plus a retractable swim platform at the rear.
    Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Enthralling both fellow captives and the Bey of Algiers, Cervantes, his spirit unbroken, also imagines a daring escape plan.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Some on the far right disseminated the footage and still images from it in order to further a clearly racist agenda.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Still images from a baby monitor camera showing a 2-year-old toddler boy sitting up in his crib.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025

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“Daydreams.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daydreams. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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