reveries
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Just as musical reveries reveal our secret selves, they also point to what we share with others.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
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
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
Often he would lie from one meal to the next almost without stirring, sometimes asleep, sometimes waking into vague reveries in which it was too much trouble to open his eyes.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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