dream up


verb
  1. (tr, adverb) to invent by ingenuity and imagination: to dream up an excuse for leaving

Words Nearby dream up

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How to use dream up in a sentence

  • I didn't do it, and I can beat any case that half-assed ex-ambulance-chaser, Farnsworth, could dream up against me.

    Murder in the Gunroom | Henry Beam Piper
  • Leave it to Chahda to dream up something like that, Rick thought.

    The Caves of Fear | John Blaine
  • An actual world to match whatever kind of world you can dream up, let's say.

    The Worlds of Joe Shannon | Frank M. Robinson
  • Let's sleep on it and see if we can't dream up something by tomorrow morning that'll really wow them.

  • Why she would look so provocative, so enchanting, so devastating, whatever other words you cared to dream up.

    Thy Name Is Woman | Bryce Walton

Other Idioms and Phrases with dream up

dream up

Invent, concoct, as in Count on her to dream up some explanation for her absence. This expression replaced the somewhat earlier dream out. [c. 1940]

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