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 a well-admired man with a "faraway look in his eyes as he spoke, the look of a dreamer, a revolutionary".

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 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

Imagine what he can do, and let the dreamer continue to dream.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

He was an inveterate tinkerer and inventor, a lover of gadgetry and mechanical devices, a designer of machines and contraptions of all sorts, a dreamer of big dreams.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown