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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Prone, like Holmes, to meditative trances, his suggest reverie rather than the whirring of mental gears.
  — Paul Franz, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2020
• And if that's not an approach that inspires poetic reveries, so be it.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2017
• All night, this Jack-in-the-box stage is a magical place, achieving unity through dreamlike reverie.
  — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• Wick’s reverie seems to signal the end of his character’s demon-battling.
  — Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 30 Apr 2024