dreamed

variants or dreamt
past tense of dream

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of dreamed The success of Marchita brought the kind of opportunities that Estrada — the daughter of luthiers from the verdant hills of Coatepec, Veracruz — had dreamed of just a few years earlier. Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2025 The military campaign appeased his far-right coalition partners, who called to expand Israel’s assault on Gaza and dreamed of fully re-occupying the territory. Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025 Still, Keaton thought her mother dreamed of something bigger. Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025 As a young girl, the New York native did school plays and dreamed of becoming a Broadway star. Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025 But also the moment right now for her is everything that she’s built up to and has dreamed of doing. Alex Ritman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025 There is an entire generation navigating a world that has always been illuminated by the glow of laptops, tablets, and smartphones, living every hour with nearly 24/7 access to a universe of more data and content than past eras could have ever dreamed of amassing. Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025 The writer dreamed of someday being remembered kindly—hopefully by Americans. Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025 The 15-year-old had an encyclopedic knowledge of New York City’s subway system and dreamed of becoming a train operator. Dave Smith, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dreamed
Verb
  • That calls for a little extra creativity from its mom — and the movie’s narrator (Emilia Clarke) — who wriggles her mandibles and gets to work embellishing upon what Dahl imagined.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Today’s mythographers have access to sources and tools that Casaubon could never have imagined—vast digital archives, instant machine translation, pattern-finding algorithms that would have sounded like science fiction a decade ago.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Indeed, a 2020 study found that meltwater trickling into Antarctica’s ice shelves could infiltrate cracks and force them open, a precursor to marine ice cliff instability that DeConto and colleagues envisioned.
    Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Incorporating elements of the female figure in abstraction, Miró originally envisioned this piece as a small, table top sized figurine and not the massive bronze sculpture it would be come, according to an article by Christie’s.
    Sophia Arndt, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The trees were cut down, sawed in half, hollowed out and tied back together for the musicians to use.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Fanatics shared the moment Tennessee Titans first overall pick, quarterback Cam Ward, saw Brady pop up on the screen to give him some wise words.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Dreamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dreamed. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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