Example sentences for: reverie

How can you use “reverie” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "His insistence that the conflict be conducted from the air and only from the air, and that an air war was winnable, was denounced in military circles, ever more openly, as the irresponsible reverie of a non-military man."

  • But I should have left that a private reverie.

  • Such gossip pales beside this "maundering," this reverie for which I am intensely thankful; for nothing so solaces me, calms me in the perplexity of life, and miraculously raises its burdens, as this sublime power, this divine talent for writing endlessly about hardly anything at all, & one should no more interrupt it, while it lasts than one should break the crockery in one's home and leave the shards lying on the kitchen floor for no reason.

  • Jaws drop; people fall all over themselves; buddies, goggle-eyed, take you aside: "How did you manage that ?" What a shallow, empty, and pathetic reverie: having one's worth enhanced by a gorgeous celebrity.

  • That the Beatles singular revolution in rock sensibility was "camp," and that this was achieved through "the intersection of the band's alienated look and [impresario Brian Epstein's] longing gaze"--"a reverie of young lads in leather"?


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