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[ UK /ɹˈɛvəɹˌi/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛvɝi/ ]
NOUN
  1. absentminded dreaming while awake
  2. an abstracted state of absorption

How To Use reverie In A Sentence

  • On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. Been there, done that
  • In prewar days, she had occupied her time with a little leisurely sewing or gardening and reading her library books, her gentle reveries interrupted only by afternoon tea brought to her on a tray.
  • This morning I'd allowed my gazing into space to modulate into a full-scale reverie, and I'd lost track completely.
  • The inheritance spent, the painters indulge in reverie, romanticizing the past, retreating into what Jung would call the collective unconscious. Haiti: an act of Devil « Anglican Samizdat
  • Such reveries are meant to support Joe's contention that he has less trouble relating to men than he does women.
  • As the show ended and fans filed to the exits only one thing was missing from this roots reverie - just a little more time.
  • By degrees, perhaps under the spell of some influence which stirs us when sleeping nature awakens once more to life, I lost myself in reverie, and recalled drowsily Lorimer of the Northwest
  • She paused, descending into some distant, nether reverie, and stared at the fish as if in labored communication with it. Fish Story
  • Credo knocked Dan out of his reverie with a jab to his ribs.
  • I have heard, that if these sublime genuises are wakened from their reveries by the appulse of external circumstances, they start, and exhibit all the perturbation and amazement of cataleptic patients. Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
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