daydreamer

Example Sentences

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The North has so far rejected Lee's goodwill gestures, calling him "delusional" and a "daydreamer".

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2025

As a child growing up in Southern California, Octavia Butler was a daydreamer who found comfort in the books she read.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022

In death, she became the patron saint of every coastal cool girl, every exhausted mother, every daydreamer of plane tickets, every chaser of her next broken heart.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2018

Colin is a guileless daydreamer, too manipulable and superstitious to make a believable teenager.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2018

He frowned and saw where he’d messed up: he was a daydreamer.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers