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devise or invent
He thought up a plan to get rich quickly
no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software
How To Use dream up In A Sentence
- His short-lived last television series, McCormick Rips, with a peroxide-blond Gary in gold lamé, counted as cruel and unusual punishment to rival anything Ellis can dream up.
- He winds up in rural Lillehammer, Norway, site of the 1994 Winter Olympic showdown between Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan the only linkage one could dream up might be the term "tire iron". The Short List: Steven Van Zandt Goes to Norway in 'Lilyhammer'
- Could it also be that our defiant devotion to our favorite stupefacient, combined with the effects of said stupefacient, invites us to dream up quasi-religious justifications for getting zonked four times a day as a sort of sacramental ritual? North Coast Journal Comments
- He would never dream up a desperate scheme like that on his own.
- When they take that habit back to their own office, they often dream up better ways to accomplish their goals.
- This is the most fantastic rumor one could dream up.
- He would never dream up a desperate scheme like that on his own.
- Parisians are partial to their traditional champagne-based Kir royale but also dream up trendier cocktails like the Jules Verne and the Cointreau Teese, created by the racy burlesque stage talent Dita Von Teese. The English Is Coming!
- And I am personally not averse to bulldozing my way towards what I want with any clever approach I can dream up.
- The authorities, in all their wisdom, really ought to dream up a more appealing format, you feel.