dreamlike
Example Sentences
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Selznick deplored Hitchcock’s “goddamn jigsaw cutting,” the dreamlike, jagged images that create his signature subjectivity, but Webb didn’t mind it at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Having already lived a dreamlike existence in France, this was starting to feel surreal.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
His last film role had been as the sinister Mystery Man, with a vampire pallor and no eyebrows, in David Lynch’s dreamlike 1997 thriller “Lost Highway.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
“David Lynch has obviously been a huge influence on me. And he was similar in his vision of the surreal, the dreamlike, the strange, the ugly and the beautiful, all kind of mashed together.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
In a dreamlike trance, I pulled the gray wool sweater over my head.
From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez
