How to Use reverie in a Sentence
reverie
noun
- I was lost in reverie and didn't realize my flight was boarding until it was almost too late.
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The crack of a sniper’s bullet woke him from his reverie.
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The Economist,
16 Aug. 2019
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What connects the suburban reverie and the wild ride around the world?
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New York Times,
5 Feb. 2021
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Reaching the end of the slideshow is a bit like waking from a fashion reverie.
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Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
1 Feb. 2018
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Drag queens will not hunt you down and force you to join their joyful reverie.
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Heidi Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Sep. 2022
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The throaty roar of a nearby lion startled me out of my reverie.
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Christine Chitnis,
ELLE,
24 May 2022
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One of them points at a newspaper and falls into a reverie.
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Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
8 Oct. 2022
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But for a reverie of reach and touch; The ancient, fingered dark.
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Ann Lauterbach,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Aug. 2021
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The first weeks of this tournament felt like a reverie for Russia.
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Rory Smith,
New York Times,
8 July 2018
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Helen has found herself in the grip of a similar reverie.
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Jennifer Senior,
The Atlantic,
9 Aug. 2021
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The strings are lush and dreamlike, like being lulled into reverie.
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Hazlitt,
2 Aug. 2023
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Someone who, with a kiss, can snap me out of my self-pitying reverie.
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Gabrielle Ulubay,
New York Times,
12 Jan. 2018
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The grand reverie of trans-faith communion was no more, and religion now seemed to bring the sword more than peace.
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Matthew Sitman,
The New Republic,
15 Apr. 2021
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But which of the two will rouse from their reverie to act when two young girls paddling in a canoe suddenly face danger?
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Krista Stevens,
Longreads,
4 Feb. 2022
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The lyrical slow passages of the first movement were moments of expansive reverie.
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Los Angeles Times,
19 July 2019
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But then John Delaney spoke up to break the socialist reverie.
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The Editorial Board,
WSJ,
27 June 2019
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Despite the Poet’s advances, she is lost in her reverie.
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Gia Kourlas,
New York Times,
14 Oct. 2022
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You can get lost in the reverie of this tune's magical nostalgia below.
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Kat Bein,
Billboard,
16 Feb. 2018
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And if that's not an approach that inspires poetic reveries, so be it.
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Childs Walker,
baltimoresun.com,
18 May 2017
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Silken strings and luminous woodwinds were the key factors in a spellbinding reverie.
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Zachary Lewis,
cleveland,
22 Nov. 2019
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At that moment a violent rattling wakes him from his reverie: the maid is pouring coal into a stove.
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Daniel Mendelsohn,
The New York Review of Books,
18 Apr. 2019
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Sully’s old friends are still stumbling around in a reverie of fond memories and unhealed grief.
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Ron Charles,
Washington Post,
18 July 2023
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The reverie was cut short as Lim flipped an omelet onto a foam plate and delivered it to the group, waiting with chopsticks poised.
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Liza Weisstuch,
chicagotribune.com,
14 Oct. 2019
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Men always take the occasion of a woman’s sadness to launch into reveries.
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Karan Mahajan,
The New Yorker,
7 Aug. 2023
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Out of this reverie, Wilson called us to lunch, telling us to keep an eye out for bears, which roam the valley below.
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Tess Taylor,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Mar. 2022
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And thanks to Gaylord Hotels, our reverie just got so much better.
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Perri Ormont Blumberg,
Southern Living,
2 Sep. 2020
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The film’s episodic, spiraling structure flows like a reverie.
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BostonGlobe.com,
5 May 2021
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Soon after the novel begins, the family has finished up a long day at the beach, and a late-night knock on the door yanks them out of their reverie.
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Hillary Kelly,
The New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2020
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Wick’s reverie seems to signal the end of his character’s demon-battling.
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Men's Health,
24 Mar. 2023
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In one particularly strong strip, the dog is in an aerial combat reverie.
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Steve Johnson,
chicagotribune.com,
22 Mar. 2018
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