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How to use dreamy in a sentence

23 example sentences · adjective

Dreamy means as in a dream; resembling a dream. Example: “I love the doctor in that American TV show: he is so dreamy!”

Examples of dreamy by meaning

adjectiveSexy; handsome; attractive.

  • I love the doctor in that American TV show: he is so dreamy!
  • He is dreamy, sex-bomb cute.1999, Shana Larsen, 200 Cigarettes (motion picture), spoken by Lucy (Courtney Love)

adjectiveHaving a pleasant or romantic atmosphere.

  • That place was so dreamy!
  • This is the chapter where things get creamy, dreamy, and cloudlike.2025 October 14, Laurel Kratochvila, “Ptysie, Bezy & Serniki: Choux, Meringues & Cheesecakes”, in Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and...

More sentences with dreamy

  • Mum sometimes accused me of being a “dreamy Daniel”, which I was.2019, Ian Higgins, Bipolar: Living With It: Manic Depressive Memoirs. From the entry dreamy Daniel
  • It was like seeing some dreamy fruit at the point of optimum, plumptious juiciness.2013, A. A. Gill, To America with Love, page 109. From the entry plumptious
  • He was the dreamy one, the offbeat one, always lost in his own world.2013, Jennifer Bernard, How to Tame a Wild Fireman. From the entry wild thing
  • But it offers pianistic thrills as well as a few moments of dreamy introspection, and Mr.2009 January 5, Allan Kozinn, “A Hefty Sound for Bach and a Piano-Centric Strauss and Szymanowski”, in New York Times. From the entry pianistic
  • She opened her eyes slightly, like a person drugged—dreamy and quiet.1997, Ridley Pearson, Beyond Recognition, New York: Hyperion, page 129. From the entry suckle
  • They cannot be dreamy Daniels, they cannot be spasmodic — gallop one half-hour, and slacken the next.1940, Jack Hilton, English Ways: A Walk from the Pennines to Epsom Downs in 1939, page 177. From the entry dreamy Daniel
  • Marys-on-the-Wye, its outcourt and surrounding buildings, slept in dreamy, peaceful slumber.1912, William Richard Harris, Pioneers of the Cross in Canada, page 131. From the entry outcourt
  • The Queen's Gambit actor put her own whimsigoth spin on bridal fashion in a dreamy beige princess dress, custom-made by Dior.2023 October 3, Rosa Sanchez, “Anya Taylor-Joy's Dior Wedding Dress Is a Dream for Whimsigoth Brides Everywhere”, in Harper's Bazaar, New…. From the entry whimsigoth
  • Her arms around him, his around hers, foreheads touching, eyes closed, they dream their dreamy dreams of rainbow unicorns and butteries.2018, Stefan Petrucha, Deadpool: Paws. From the entry rainbow unicorns
  • "Well, I'll be bound," Ruby said with a dreamy sigh.2015, Mary Monroe, Mama Ruby. From the entry I'll be bound
  • We had a real sweet, dreamy, Dinah Washington-kinda arrangement of it that’d make even the worrisomest drunk pipe down and listen.1988, Al Young, chapter 14, in Seduction by Light, New York, N.Y.: Delta Fiction, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry worrisome
  • The dreamy coloring of the land is just too drunkening.1985, Kay Dreyfus, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Farthest North of Humanness: Letters, page 31. From the entry drunken
  • Back then, her distantness seemed dreamy.2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 190. From the entry distantness
  • The girl’s face is dreamy, slow.2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry touched
  • I half slept and half woke and enjoyed for several hours that dreamy, in-betweeny state of living that hovers between consciousness and sleep.2007, Stephen Cottrell, Do Nothing to Change Your Life: Discovering What Happens When You Stop, Seabury Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry in-betweeny
  • Day after day succeeds of most delicious, dreamy softness; not enervating like the heats of summer, but exhilarating to soul and body.1901, Albert Matthews, The Term Indian Summer, page 34. From the entry heats
  • Dreamy was working him on the gear with the gearman during the day, checking clusters, replacing burned out bulbs, repairing tents, changing runners, replacing guys, trimming derricks.2006, Wayne Ward, The Last Seaman, page 103. From the entry gearman
  • Over-paragraphing, under-punctuation, and short lines, make them appear wispier than they really are, and some good imagery and observation is swamped by the personal and dreamy fantasy.1948, Tribune, page 17. From the entry under-punctuation
  • The afternoon sun was getting low as the Rat sculled gently homewards in a dreamy mood, murmuring poetry-things over to himself, and not paying much attention to Mole.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC. From the entry scull

Meaning of dreamy

  1. adjective As in a dream; resembling a dream.
  2. adjective Sexy; handsome; attractive.
  3. adjective Having a pleasant or romantic atmosphere.

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Questions about dreamy in a sentence

How do you use dreamy in a sentence?
Dreamy is used as an adjective. For example: “I love the doctor in that American TV show: he is so dreamy!”
What is a short sentence with dreamy?
“He is dreamy, sex-bomb cute.”
What does dreamy mean?
Dreamy means as in a dream; resembling a dream.

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