dreamer

Example Sentences

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So it is all the more affecting that for this charming last novel, he left us with a dreamer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

British journalist William Pike, who interviewed Museveni in 1984, described him as having the "faraway look... of a dreamer, a revolutionary" who was "intensely serious but showed flashes of humour".

From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026

When I first interviewed him in 2005, he seemed a dreamer with little hope of success and had never launched a single rocket.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

And yet, true to his core as an iconoclastic dreamer willing to risk everything for the sake of discovering the unknown, he still says, “It was worth it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

I told him one night that I was waiting for the angel, and he said, Och, now, Francis, you’re a bit of a dreamer.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt