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
  • Season 2 once again explores the consequences of turning fantasies into reality in suburban Britain.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • From cozy, whimsical fantasies to historical fiction and horror, this guide to August’s brightest new releases has something for everyone.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Robbie dreams of living in places with white sand beaches, or perhaps a bucolic island in Canada, and the music takes him there.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Alongside Reese, Chiro dreams of seeing Rihanna in one of her dresses.
    Tiana Randall, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The aforementioned masks, for instance, hasten strange visions for Blakey, but the film’s hard boundary between his dreams and waking life sap these sequences of all tension.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • As a guy who is simply not built for summer (sweaty, burns easily, refuses to wear shorts), the turning of the calendar to September adds a little lead to my tread, with visions of cider and sweaters dancing in my head.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The creative team includes movement by Steven Hoggett, sets by Christine Jones, costumes by Katrina Lindsay, music and arrangements by Imogen Heap, lighting by Neil Austin, sound by Gareth Fry, and illusions and magic by Jamie Harrison.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Small lights pointed at the audience also help to obscure what’s happening onstage, so guests can’t see beyond the illusions.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Adapted from a French bestseller, the dystopian thriller imagines a near-future Paris in which neighborhoods have been divided up into zones based on social class, with a police force operating under the command of ALMA, a predictive AI system (voiced, in the film, by an actual AI system).
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Herzog imagines our earliest ancestors might have evinced a similar curiosity about the novel fire-scarred landscape — seeing fire less as a seasonal catastrophe than as a potential caloric windfall.
    Peter Brannen, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • 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 9 Sep. 2025.

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