reveries
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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During intimate evening reveries and at occasional large-scale gatherings, they muse over the decades they’ve spent cultivating their own talents, with joy, satisfaction and maybe a twinge of regret.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023
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
At first, it’s just the reveries of family and acquaintances — one of his daughters, a former girlfriend — but soon his invasions spread to complete strangers.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2023
Musk would often lapse into long reflective reveries, and the biographer would learn not to interrupt.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023
The thought of her mortification kept me company for a long time, but the sounds of music and laughter and Cisco Kid screams broke into my pleasant revengeful reveries.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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