Example Sentences

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The study included 20 participants who had prior experience with lucid dreaming, meaning they sometimes realized they were dreaming while still asleep.

From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2026

“There is this sense of, we’ll never be able to buy a house and we’ll never be able to build the life that we were dreaming of.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

The Toon Army were dreaming of a place in the knockout stages when they took the lead through Joelinton's 33rd-minute thunderbolt while Borussia Dortmund led against Paris St-Germain in Germany.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2023

“I feel either we were dreaming then or we are in a nightmare now,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2023

‘You were dreaming I expect, Mr. Frodo,’ said Sam.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien