reveries
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The Nobel laureate was a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023
Musk would often lapse into long reflective reveries, and the biographer would learn not to interrupt.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023
A hamburger stand-turned-roadhouse up against rolling hills, it belongs to plein-air reveries of old California but with dozens of Harley-Davidsons parked out front, glinting in the sun.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2023
There's Callier, a bar that can inspire Proustian reveries across generations of Eurail clutching backpackers.
From Salon • Aug. 13, 2023
But I am letting myself be carried away by reveries which I must now put aside, writes Aronnax.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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