How To Use Daydream In A Sentence

  • My daydreams of creaming him in a spit-off were instantly dashed.
  • Soak up some sun or daydream the day away.
  • I was just enjoying a daydream about winning the Nobel Prize for literature.
  • Yet unlike so many star-struck kids, Kylie had the connections to make her daydreams happen.
  • Ever since I found out that they make adult sizes I've been daydreaming about 'heeling' to work (just think how exciting that walk to and from London Bridge would be on wheels), about skating carefree-ly round Paul when we go shopping, and about generally being the coolest kid in the playground. The One With The Fad
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  • This is less strange than it might sound; it is rather like daydreaming, or the feeling you get when the mind wanders while reading. Times, Sunday Times
  • The same kind of daydream may also be No. 1 among men. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • Why is this just a daydream instead of reality? The Sun
  • After a romantic daydream (not of love but of adventure) and blinking, the doe-eyed girl hugged her books to her bosom and proceeded to him with a pale face.
  • With nothing but the gentle slap of one piece of pasteboard against another to distract him, Sam slipped imperceptibly from daydreaming into sleep.
  • The colour of edition of set limit to makeup combined smooth shadow and idolum creation to give infinite daydream, let any the people long to be shined by her glamour place.
  • The most surprising Democrat to engage in this daydreaming is one who never dated Dean in the first place: Peter Beinart, editor of the New Republic. September 2004
  • In fact, she looked more interested in daydreaming about the colour she might dye her hair next. The Sun
  • Do preparation instead of just daydreaming about success. The Sun
  • Although I had allowed myself on more than one occasion to daydream and imagined myself in the lovely silk layered clothes of a lady.
  • They may just be daydreaming. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
  • When Rob Venditti was still in the process of writing the comic book script that would become "The Surrogates", he and his wife daydreamed one night about who might star in a hypothetic film adaptation. Rob Venditti On Bruce Willis, ‘The Surrogates,’ And Your First Look At The ‘Flesh And Bone’ Prequel
  • But Pietro is too lost in his own daydreams and dispirited behavior to pay attention to his studies.
  • Initial daydreams of a little finca close to a Spanish beach were destroyed by the cost of even the grimmest coastal properties.
  • It didn't stop her from daydreaming though, that she could be the girl to help him love again.
  • Instead of daydreaming about the life you want, you make practical plans. The Sun
  • The graceful arch of the main beach is transplanted from an early 20th Century French daydream, with a broad pedestrian corniche punctuated by graceful wrought iron lamps.
  • Instead of just daydreaming about changes, you take the first step towards making them real. The Sun
  • In fact, she looked more interested in daydreaming about the colour she might dye her hair next. The Sun
  • Now the daydreaming is back -- in career form (of sorts). Mulling
  • I nodded assent, and promptly closed my eyes and began to daydream.
  • The old hands were less excited and settled down to daydream the time away until supper.
  • I am sorry to awaken you rudely from this daydream.
  • She smiled at her daydream hoping that things worked out exactly the way she imagined.
  • Instead of daydreaming about the life you want, you make practical plans. The Sun
  • It's easy to just daydream about the life you want but today you can take the first step towards it by getting all the facts. The Sun
  • Another common form of strabismus (wall eyes), may only be noticeable when a child daydreams, looks at far-away objects, or is tiredor sick.
  • Instead of just daydreaming about changes, you take the first step towards making them real. The Sun
  • He daydreams of being a famous journalist.
  • I can't remember the last time I looked out the window, or daydreamed as I worked on my computer.
  • His fond daydream shows that he is perfectly capable of the woollyheaded nonsense he decries in others.
  • Beth gets Cal's attention away from his daydream and tells him she wants the family to go to London for Christmas this year.
  • Daydreams of living like a prince are one thing, but living in a house that has played host to kings, queens, shahs and high-ranking dignitaries is quite another.
  • When Morvern Callar discovers that her boyfriend has cut his own throat, she hardly reacts at all: "There was fright but I'd daydreamed how I'd be. Psychos, Obsessives And Other Loons
  • It leaves you absolutely speechless, wondering if you really watched it or it was some kind of daydream that your sick mind came up with? Yeti: A Love Story (2006)
  • Instead of just daydreaming about setting up your own business, you can take the first vital step today. The Sun
  • High-end animated cartoon field technology , optesthesia pound , the innovative idea with advertisement can give person optesthesia to pound with boundless daydream.
  • Instead of daydreaming about changes, you have the power to make them. The Sun
  • I've always been a realist, not a daydreamer.
  • His daydreams are not about wealth and power, the kind which most of us have but about innovating disruptive technologies that would strike against multinational corporations.
  • Em scanned the schoolyard with drooped eyelids in a pleasant daydream trying to find a liable distraction.
  • We had to run out and buy a blank book for her to record daydreams and nightdreams, and she's been at it for a week now.
  • They may just be daydreaming. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
  • Everyone said I was far too quiet, like I was always lost in my own world, daydreaming.
  • And I too have been daydreaming about blue wings ... and also about a certain dark-haired vampire * grin* Guild Hunter Book #2 Title Change
  • At the end of the day, when she actually bumps into him, she is left with a feeling, whether it is still a daydream or sure reality.
  • In fact, she looked more interested in daydreaming about the colour she might dye her hair next. The Sun
  • With a sigh she turned her attentions inward once again, back to her own daydream.
  • You are ready to work on secret ambitions instead of just daydreaming about them and you have both the energy and luck needed to make things happen. The Sun
  • He was daydreaming about them combing the market for horses when he collided with someone.
  • Mostly, each the azygous girls daydream of the blessed association with children. Article directories Celibataire Urbaine
  • She was free to indulge in a little romantic daydreaming.
  • Among faces, Gene Tierney's is a tournament rose, an opaline study in serene, sexualized perfection, a mad musky Egyptian daydream of cat thoughts.
  • Instead of daydreaming about changes, you are ready and able to make them. The Sun
  • Kira's daydream was broke with a soft voice addressed her ‘Kira, someone paged me?’
  • It was a strange kind of daydream, because whenever I thought of some Beverly Hills shopkeeper smiling at me I also thought that he was lying, that he really hated me. White Butterfly
  • I'm hopeful that Lindqvist, Alfredson and Co. will be able to resist the temptation to prepare a sequel, as it's a great pleasure simply to daydream about the stories these characters will likely share in the days, weeks and years following the invigoratingly open-ended closing shot. Archive 2008-12-07
  • They come without baggage to interrupt the daydream of a desert island. Times, Sunday Times
  • The main point about daydreaming is that you are feeding your mind positive images which gives your immune system a regular boost. Banish Headaches -how to obtain fast, drug-free relief from headache
  • I'm a daydreamer and a realist — two pieces of my psyche in constant conflict. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Why is this just a daydream instead of reality? The Sun
  • Blinking and refocusing her eyes from her daydream onto the harshness of real life, she realized that the road had suddenly become extremely crowded, the dark of night illuminated by what seemed like thousands of lights.
  • You're going to daydream sitting on the harbour side of the library.
  • The cloud-castle is impossibly realistic, the daydreamer doesn't to become the affair that you want to do forever.
  • You daydream about this person - now you get the chance to talk. The Sun
  • You know the power of the daydream to transform the lumber-room's contents into precious jewels.
  • Instead of daydreaming about longed-for changes in family life, you find a way to make them happen. The Sun
  • I am not good at following orders and I've always been a bit of a daydreamer. Patrick Buckley: DODOcase: Our iPad Case Saves The Jobs Of Local Bookbinders
  • By the time the interim came to an end, we struggled with too much daydreaming and time wasting. Christianity Today
  • Was he an outspoken child who led the others in their games, or was he a quiet brooder who sat and daydreamed about what he'd grow up to be?
  • Picturesque ruins become eloquent backdrops for biblical dramas, daydreams of shepherds and bacchantes, or meditations on the pettiness of modern life. Museums: The Romance of Ruins
  • He never paid attention in class and seemed to be in a permanent daydream.
  • I'm still chugging away at my SNES, Nintendo DS, and Playstation 2 as I daydream about these fancier, spiffier game machines and what they can offer me in terms of freedom. Top 10 Videogames Not Played in 2008
  • Instead of letting your secret ambition be just a comfortable daydream you're ready to show the world what you can do. The Sun
  • How many times have you sat in your office, daydreaming about being on your boat instead of at work?
  • Instead of daydreaming about changes, you are ready and able to make them. The Sun
  • Do preparation instead of just daydreaming about success. The Sun
  • Do preparation instead of just daydreaming about success. The Sun
  • It's nice when a daydreamer as gifted as Brown decides to unlock that dear diary inside her head, if only for a while. Michael Bialas: Why Pieta Brown Digs the Music of Dylan, Dire Straits and her Dad
  • The azygous daydream Evropean woman of a advantage experience who they faculty find is joined with the accompany of experience which affect them sufficiency, which gives them trueness compassion. Article directories Celibataire Urbaine
  • Book a trip to a picturesque village in Switzerland at the very beginning of the ski season and this doesn't have to be a daydream. Times, Sunday Times
  • I spend quite a lot of time daydreaming. Times, Sunday Times
  • She stopped daydreaming and realized she had about ten minutes left to get to the captain.
  • Instead of just daydreaming about setting up your own business, you can take the first vital step today. The Sun
  • She was, by her own account, ‘a squat, bespectacled child who lived mostly in books and daydreams’.
  • I would spend hours daydreaming about a house of my own.
  • You are either in your room deep in thought, or you're sitting in the staircase daydreaming.
  • The room is one they talked about but never saw, a room they would have liked to live in one day, with a sunken pool, a silken tent draped from the ceiling-a De Mille set really, slender and oiled girls in attendance, a suggestion of midday light coming through from overhead, Scorpia sprawled among fat pillows wearing exactly the corselette of Belgian lace, the dark stockings and shoes he daydreamed about often enough but never - Gravity's Rainbow
  • Theo slowly began to drift off into another daydream about the life she wished she could have, the life of a popular girl that didn't have a care in the world.
  • She was back at her home, daydreaming again when she was supposed to be practicing her flute.
  • Celil was suddenly thrust back into reality from her daydream by the bellow of a war-horn, screeches and roars, and the twang of bowstrings.
  • I find myself daydreaming about this person, imagining that he wants me. The Sun
  • She suggested that daydreaming and imagination were ways of turning unhappy thoughts into something creative. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mention Oxford, and images of daydreaming dons and youths punting on the Cherwell come to mind.
  • The headlines I had been daydreaming about were becoming real. The Other Side of Me
  • A new study by University of British Columbia researchers, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that daydreaming is an extremely active, cognitively complex mental state: Boing Boing
  • He was often inattentive in his own schooling and was a habitual daydreamer.
  • While boys may be hyperactive and more visible for teachers, the typical girl with ADD is most often quiet, a daydreamer and unfortunately overlooked. George Sachs, Psy.D.: Women With ADD
  • What seems like just a daydream of sporting success can become winning action. The Sun
  • What has just been a daydream of working differently could turn into a reality. The Sun
  • In fact, just this morning, I organized a desk drawer, did two loads of clothes, emptied the dishwasher and daydreamed about Dayton in March.
  • I find myself daydreaming about this person, imagining that he wants me. The Sun
  • Throughout his busy day, Paul finds time to look for Harry but also to film a video, record some songs, and daydream.
  • Her expression was pure tranquillity, so dispassionate and detached that she seemed to be in the depths of some daydream.
  • No wonder there is no time for idle speculation, for daydreaming. Times, Sunday Times
  • A spring blizzard is covering northcentral Montana, schools are closed which never happens – we pride ourselves on our ‘toughness’ – and I have a perfect day to stay home and daydream for a few extra minutes. La frangine - French Word-A-Day
  • Instead of daydreaming about changes, you are ready and able to make them. The Sun
  • Even so, she had never stopped wistfully daydreaming about what could have been, of the life she could have lived on Lothos.
  • I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. Steven Wright 
  • There was a sigh of relief and Dad would be in a daydreamy dwam until the final bars of All I Have to Do is Dream repeated to fade. Family life
  • For neither would Teufelsdröckh's mad daydream, here as we presume covertly intended, of levelling Society (_levelling_ it indeed with a vengeance, into one huge drowned marsh!), and so attaining the political effects of Nudity without its frigorific or other consequences, -- be thereby realised. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
  • The directors have decided that the best way to describe Craig's psychological malaise is through a series of "daydream" sequences, and each one is more painful than the last. Cinematical
  • Why is this just a daydream instead of reality? The Sun
  • Now they have lunch with each other, daydreaming like children about new lives as inventors, explorers and sportsmen.
  • You daydream about this person - now you get the chance to talk. The Sun
  • Instead of daydreaming about the life you want, you make practical plans. The Sun
  • It's easy to just daydream about the life you want but today you can take the first step towards it by getting all the facts. The Sun
  • You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. Neil Gaiman 
  • What has just been a daydream of working differently could turn into a reality. The Sun
  • She sought solitude and tried to escape into daydreaming.
  • Neither of these people, in either of the hypothetical situations, would be so placid and unaroused that his body would exhibit the peaceful physiology of sleep or daydreaming. Stress and the Manager
  • So perhaps it is not surprising that lawyers daydream about an exciting career change. Times, Sunday Times
  • A sweeping glance confirmed that no one needed my attention, and I returned to my daydreams.
  • Instead of letting your secret ambition be just a comfortable daydream you're ready to show the world what you can do. The Sun
  • Aim just sat there, still engrossed in her daydream with her muffin.
  • The room twirled in time; I dozed and daydreamed back to the past three Christmases. Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
  • The famously reclusive millionaire writer JK Rowling has revealed that even as a child she hid away from the world, burying herself in books and daydreams.
  • We had daydreamed about moving to Mexico and searched the websites for information. Page 3
  • Pretty soon, she was deep into her daydreams and didn't realize the peeved teacher glooming over her desk.
  • In her daydream, she imagined being in an airplane.
  • He never paid attention in class and seemed to be in a permanent daydream.
  • The headlines I had been daydreaming about were becoming real. The Other Side of Me
  • Moving images and sound fill a room animating thought processes and daydreams.
  • If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. Albert Einstein 
  • You are ready to work on secret ambitions instead of just daydreaming about them and you have both the energy and luck needed to make things happen. The Sun
  • Just wondering, since in my best fantasies of eventual publishment my daydreams become nightmares of taxes, insurance, and the evil IRS boojums. Archive 2006-01-29
  • So perhaps it is not surprising that lawyers daydream about an exciting career change. Times, Sunday Times
  • I have met a would-be suicide bomber who had not yet had the chance to put his thanatological daydream into practice.
  • And the pipestem ectomorph was a hostage to cerebrotonia, lost in thoughts and daydreams. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The film, and the feeling it communicates, is like an antidote to the poison of ideas based on race, or perhaps like a spirited daydream of the way it could be for all us if we were true to ourselves.
  • She closed her eyes and started daydreaming about Kyle and wondering if he would be at the party.
  • I was daydreaming of going to work at my local bakery. Christianity Today
  • And, as I usually sat sewing with my sisters and my mother, I often had time for such idle daydreams.
  • When Charles tapped me on the shoulder I was daydreaming of golden beaches and palm trees.
  • Benben stars as Martin Tupper (book editor and fantasizer) whose dysfunctional dating life is punctuated by moments of cinematic daydreams.
  • But you could be surprised when a daydream about love turns real. The Sun
  • Here possible hear all about comfort in daydream: bedding In Bed with WHO?
  • I must have been daydreaming about it when I accidentally dropped a loaded tray crowded with entrées of pork tenderloin and pasta Alfredo.
  • I have met a would-be suicide bomber who had not yet had the chance to put his thanatological daydream into practice. Medpundit
  • In one, as yet unnamed piece, a woman sits languidly daydreaming, her leg dangling over John's fireplace.
  • Theirs is a harmless daydream, an ultimately mild gesture of defiance against conformity.
  • They daydream about the jealousy in the eyes of friends when they announce the forthcoming nuptials and the wonderful future life in the sun.
  • They may just be daydreaming. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
  • I'd been daydreaming about it all week, and it was every bit as good as it always is.
  • For starters, it has an unlikable protagonist, a man who lies, steals, womanizes, drinks, daydreams and generally epitomizes uselessness.
  • I spend quite a lot of time daydreaming. Times, Sunday Times
  • Instead of just daydreaming about setting up your own business, you can take the first vital step today. The Sun
  • Downstairs, Kim made a teenage fortress of her bedroom, her books and papers strewn across her bed, where she did her homework or daydreamed. History of a Suicide
  • I was still peeved at myself for doodling hearts all over my paper, even if I was daydreaming.
  • The colour of edition of set limit to makeup combined smooth shadow and idolum creation to give infinite daydream, let any the people long to be shined by her glamour place.
  • Daydreaming, maybe, or closing her eyes for an instant, or stretching out to absorb the fine morning sun.
  • I had a chuckle looking at Oprah so far removed from her own Mississippi roots when she couldn't even lift up a bucket of water to balance on her head, like the young girl she was with here's a clue, Oprah: it's called a bandanna, you wrap it around like a turban, place it on your head, and if positioned correctly, the bucket should balance itself on this apparatus - I'm sure your rural, impoverished grandmother knew something about this, if you had listened to her various instructions instead of daydreaming that you would never do what she was doing; you might have spared yourself the embarrassment of not being able to do what most women of African descent in this world know how to do - but I digress. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy: Black Feminism, Surrogate Motherhood, or Colonialist Fantasy?
  • He had been pondering his next move all the academic day, drifting off into daydreams instead of paying attention in class.
  • Dalliers, dawdlers and daydreamers learn to camouflage their lack of achievement in torrents of words.
  • I must look as though I'm stuck in a daydream, because Lake taps the desk to get my attention.
  • When he was 11, his teachers had to tell him to stop daydreaming about acting all the time and work harder at his studies.
  • Most of the time he lay on his back and looked at the sky, the same one that arched over Ricardo Flores, and he daydreamed of Alba — her bronze skin, her black hair, the shame and joy on her face as she revealed herself to him. Alba
  • Jamil's octet tour last year and his CD Daydreams received enthusiastic reviews.
  • Instead of letting your secret ambition be just a comfortable daydream you're ready to show the world what you can do. The Sun
  • One of the principles I have always fallen back on when the world seems really depressing is something I came up with while daydreaming in a graduate statistics class in 1975 which I call Kelley's Theorem of Human Nature. Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!
  • In the movie's duller stretches, the viewer may daydream of pulling up in an unmarked van and spiriting the actor away to a better film.
  • She was free to indulge in a little romantic daydreaming.
  • May the gods continue to make: dice-weir boxes superconfident low-level telepathic peccable language identical daydreamers dapperling Moadex re-do do’d denotating bike rustre mini cacophonious calmative worrywart, deck saga, novel sun scrogs unlikes a consortium of cliffs: Kenneth Goldsmith pride of place and joy to us here at hear right writing official counsel, dual reasoning: who deserves Pliny who’d answer their prayers if he could and “Name, a novel” by Toadex Hobogrammathon : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • So instead I smiled and made some throwaway statement, and returned to my daydreams of the stage.
  • He never paid attention in class and seemed to be in a permanent daydream.
  • She came to him, literally in a daydream, when he was bored, frustrated and uninspired, working at his father's coffee machine repair shop in Venice.
  • In all of this Supreme Court daydreaming, is any rightwinger going to say outright, “Everything we said about “judicial activism” was pure smokescreen”? Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform
  • The truth of it is I'd rather be out in the fresh air on a lovely day, daydreaming in the sun.
  • The early single Like A Daydream, their finest pop moment, was a monster of a song tonight.
  • As if on cue, a girl with shoulder-length mouse brown hair walked right by him, those ever-cautious eyes lost in some daydream.
  • The colour of edition of set limit to makeup combined smooth shadow and idolum creation to give infinite daydream, let any the people long to be shined by her glamour place.
  • But here I was: cold, tired, walking along an interstate in the dead dark of morning daydreaming about why sidewalks were never built along interstates.
  • The trait has, however, been linked tantalizingly with an individual's ability to become absorbed in activities such as reading, listening to music or daydreaming.
  • Although Ayman was an excellent student, he often seemed to be daydreaming in class.
  • A good deal of waking life is punctuated by daydreams, reveries, and fantasies in which the mind withdraws to contemplate an interior landscape.
  • A fastidious little cough from the dark side of the laurel bush interrupted her daydreams.
  • The right tends to see this as an excuse to stifle criticism while the left calls it "daydream", in the words of China Is Not Happy, that will be ludicrous and futile, let alone to "save the world". Undefined
  • no tengamos miedo current back forward archives mail profile diaryland es más que un "set-up" oficial es más que un reflejo sideral es "daydreaming" a un nivel sub-trascendental. Cruda Diary Entry
  • This morning I woke up at 7am [5 hours sleep AGAIN], daydreamed in bed til 8: 30, watched The Nightmare Before Christmas until 10am and have been bludging on the net waiting for Photoshop to download. Sierrazen Diary Entry
  • But such things were impossible when he saw her engrossed in a daydream.
  • Global warming was right here, right now: and the idle daydream that it would just import Mediterranean sunshine had been washed clean away.
  • Coleridge's attack on the "beggarly daydreaming" of romance reading noted that "the whole material and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects and transmits the moving fantasms of one man's delirium, so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose" (1975, 28). Reading Machines
  • Her daydreams, he thought, were social, 'hobnobbing' with the great. The Times Literary Supplement
  • What has just been a daydream of working differently could turn into a reality. The Sun
  • You could argue that by offloading data onto silicon, we free our own gray matter for more germanely "human" tasks like brainstorming and daydreaming. Your Outboard Brain Knows All

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