dreamlike
Example Sentences
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Released 60 years ago, the director’s drama about a troubled actress and the nurse assigned to care for her is a work of dazzling, dreamlike style and haunting ambiguity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
He watched as posters' imagination developed the image into a "vaguely nostalgic and vaguely dreamlike but also very tangible science-fiction concept".
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
Action slows to a dreamlike glide, frame by frame; the motion of a hand, a sentence spoken, fills an eternity.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
