daydreaming

Example Sentences

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When a promotion affords her a workspace, she cultivates a fixation with paperweights, which help keep her daydreaming grounded.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

On Monday, that daydreaming lad from Lancashire raced at his fifth and final Olympics, his retirement imminent at the age of 39 after a career that has cemented his place as Britain's greatest Alpine skier.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

Along with daydreaming, discuss what you’re really willing to sacrifice.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025

Any evidence to the contrary is dismissed as airy-fairy daydreaming or a distasteful fluke.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2025

No, not believing it so much as daydreaming it and running it through a maze of wishful thinking.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd