variants
or less commonly revery
plural reveries
1
: daydream
2
: the condition of being lost in thought
Examples of reverie in a Sentence
I was lost in reverie and didn't realize my flight was boarding until it was almost too late.
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At another Trump barn burner, the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson digressed into a lengthy pornographic reverie about a father spanking his daughter.
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Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
But no space seals her nostalgic reverie quite like the primary closet.
—Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024
When the shrill whine of a bell interrupts the constructed reverie, a more realistic scene comes into focus: Two men rush to button up their shirts and resume their work.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Stiles didn’t mind revealing the shiny shards of his bohemian rhapsody in a barstool reverie.
—Damian Panetta, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
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Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
But no space seals her nostalgic reverie quite like the primary closet.
—Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024
When the shrill whine of a bell interrupts the constructed reverie, a more realistic scene comes into focus: Two men rush to button up their shirts and resume their work.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Stiles didn’t mind revealing the shiny shards of his bohemian rhapsody in a barstool reverie.
—Damian Panetta, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Reverie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reverie. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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reverie
noun
rev·er·ie
variants
also revery
plural reveries
1
2
: the condition of being lost in thought
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