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How to use reverie in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Reverie means a state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream. Example: “He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.”

Examples of reverie by meaning

nounA state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.

  • He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
  • Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please...

verbTo daydream.

  • In her old days she’ll either be Madame Representativewoman from the same said X-town, or a cheerful old philanderer, pardon me, I mean philanthropist, living in seclusion and reverying in the shades of the past.1936 March, Elmer D. Johnson, “Soliloquy on a Forgotten Town: What Will Become of It?”, in Charles A. Poe, editor, The Carolina Magazine...
  • He reveried on.1980, Peter Van Greenaway, The Dissident: A Novel (Gollancz Suspense), London: Gollancz, →ISBN

More sentences with reverie

  • His thoughts when they turned to the castle were by no means in the nature of reveries.1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC. From the entry sentimentalist
  • How lose one’s self in historical reverie amid the odour of roast veal and spinach?1900, Jerome K. Jerome, “Chapter 12”, in Three Men on the Bummel. From the entry rhapsodize
  • My reverie was broken with a Whatsapp message.2015, Madhuri Banerjee, chapter 6, in My Clingy Girlfriend, New Delhi: westland ltd, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry whatsapp
  • As I turned the corner, my reverie was ruined by the uptalky conversation between Hilary Beck and Rachel Martin.2015, Anna Davies, Identity Theft, page 4. From the entry uptalky
  • Irresponsibly, his reverie reëmbraced the memory he had of the woman who alone held the key to his matrimonial entanglement.1912, Louis Joseph Vance, The Destroying Angel (2010 republication), chapter VI: “Curtain”, page 44. From the entry reëmbrace
  • Like the show’s spiralling structure, this is modelled on classic surrealist exhibitions devised by Marcel Duchamp, luring you in to lose yourself in reveries.2024 September 6, Jonathan Jones, “Surréalisme review – monstrous, deviant, glorious fun as the movement hits 100”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry surrealist
  • It was a moment of bathos and anticlimax; a poor sequel to my smoke-ringed, vinous reverie on American grandeur the previous night.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN; republished London: Atlantic Books, 2011, →ISBN, page 254. From the entry vinous
  • Until our economy went kerflooey, it was a whimsical reverie about the life that you could swap for the one that you were leading.2009 February 8, David Segal, “What’s Your New Plan B?”, in New York Times. From the entry kerflooey
  • The noise of the whizzing machine might disturb the calm of my stoveside reverie, but the satin texture makes the disruption worthwhile.2008 February 3, Sara Dickerman, “Lovin’ Spoonfuls”, in New York Times. From the entry stoveside
  • The loneliness of this new life, he said, is mitigated by Jacques, who spent most of the interview beached in a narcoleptic reverie at my feet, snoring and farting.2017 May 3, Michael Paterniti, “Brad Pitt Talks Divorce, Quitting Drinking, and Becoming a Better Man”, in GQ, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast…. From the entry narcoleptic
  • She then continues with her own private reveries about being mistaken for African when she was in Canada and “them old slaves refugitives and them new African refugees” (34).2016, L. King, Linda F. Selzer, New Essays on the African American Novel, →ISBN. From the entry refugitive
  • Footpadded and austere, a temperance leader, he slumps in torpid reverie over a sea of blistering dunes, yet easily is tamed, the Britannica says, because he's stupid.2015, Jonathan F. S. Post, A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht, →ISBN. From the entry footpadded
  • Recovered from reverie, Miss Marley joined him, coming cautiously over the rocks in her flat-heeled shoes, and skimping back her frock a little to mark her step.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 128. From the entry flat-heeled
  • The process of animal hypnosis has been called catatonia, catalepsy, thanatosis, akinesis, and action inhibition; in man it has been known as mesmerism, animal magnetism, somnambulism, reverie, and druidic sleep.1973, Lyall Watson, Supernature, page vii. 213. From the entry druidic sleep

Meaning of reverie

  1. noun A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.
  2. noun An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
  3. verb To daydream.

Full definition of reverie

Questions about reverie in a sentence

How do you use reverie in a sentence?
Reverie is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.”
What is a short sentence with reverie?
“He reveried on.”
What does reverie mean?
Reverie means a state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.

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