How to Use reverie in a Sentence

reverie

noun
Definition of reverienext
Synonyms for reverienext
  • I was lost in reverie and didn't realize my flight was boarding until it was almost too late.
  • The crack of a sniper’s bullet woke him from his reverie.
    — The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
  • What connects the suburban reverie and the wild ride around the world?
    — New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021
  • But for a reverie of reach and touch; The ancient, fingered dark.
    — Ann Lauterbach, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Reaching the end of the slideshow is a bit like waking from a fashion reverie.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Drag queens will not hunt you down and force you to join their joyful reverie.
    — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Deeds fell into a reverie at his desk and the wide grin of a proud father spread across his face.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The throaty roar of a nearby lion startled me out of my reverie.
    — Christine Chitnis, ELLE, 24 May 2022
  • Someone who, with a kiss, can snap me out of my self-pitying reverie.
    — Gabrielle Ulubay, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The first weeks of this tournament felt like a reverie for Russia.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 July 2018
  • Is this moment, in fact, one of her dreams—spurred by the reverie update from Season 1?
    — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Feel the noise Rumble, wheeze, groan, roar, whoosh, clank, thud, creak and repeat — this, for me, is the onset of bus reverie.
    — Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • One of them points at a newspaper and falls into a reverie.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Out of this reverie, Wilson called us to lunch, telling us to keep an eye out for bears, which roam the valley below.
    — Tess Taylor, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The strings are lush and dreamlike, like being lulled into reverie.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The grand reverie of trans-faith communion was no more, and religion now seemed to bring the sword more than peace.
    — Matthew Sitman, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2021
  • His state of trance-like reverie reminds me that our species’ connection to fire is very, very old.
    — M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But then John Delaney spoke up to break the socialist reverie.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 June 2019
  • Despite the Poet’s advances, she is lost in her reverie.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Helen has found herself in the grip of a similar reverie.
    — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2021
  • And thanks to Gaylord Hotels, our reverie just got so much better.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The reverie was cut short as Lim flipped an omelet onto a foam plate and delivered it to the group, waiting with chopsticks poised.
    — Liza Weisstuch, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • In the bottom of the frame, the reverie ended when Pedro Baez served up a game-deciding home run to send the Dodgers toward a 6-5 defeat.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
  • 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.
    — Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
  • And as the lights came on and the reverie evaporated, Romaschenko sat on the turf, waiting for midnight, hoping to stretch it out just a bit more.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 July 2018
  • And when Marcus runs into Mia once again — the explosive fireworks — that knocks him out of his reverie.
    — Iana Murray, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But which of the two will rouse from their reverie to act when two young girls paddling in a canoe suddenly face danger?
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The woman, in profile, in a deep reverie, her eyes dreamily downcast, holds the letter with both hands.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • Anyone who thinks Gomez can’t bring the pop-star pizzazz should see her sequence that goes from bedroom reverie to music-video breakdown.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2024
  • Forcing the farmers to focus their work on the farmhouse somehow shocked them out of this reverie, but not before the hungry citizens had tanked the approval level needed to help my settlement grow.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 10 May 2024

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