reveries
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The reveries always end poorly, usually with me shouting something like “Your body is a miracle!” and their owner robot escorting me off its property.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
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
Drifting down a corridor at her German school, a world that looks even drabber and uglier after the wonders she’s seen, this Priscilla seems lost in a dream, the most private of reveries.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 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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