REVERIE in a Sentence
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96 example sentences for REVERIE, such as:
1. She was in a desponding reverie.
2. She was in a reverie of sweet remembrances.
3. Why, Fanny, you are absolutely in a reverie.
4. He was awakened from his reverie by the teacher's question.
5. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
2. She was in a reverie of sweet remembrances.
3. Why, Fanny, you are absolutely in a reverie.
4. He was awakened from his reverie by the teacher's question.
5. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Meanings and Examples of REVERIE
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reverie
n. absentminded dreaming while awake
n. an abstracted state of absorption
Classic Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
1 Mrs. Elmhurst roused herself from her reverie; and looked at her programme.
2 The swineherd stood gazing after the travellers until they were lost under the boughs of the forest path, when he was disturbed from his reverie by the voice of Wamba.
3 She was in a reverie of sweet remembrances.
4 Why, Fanny, you are absolutely in a reverie.
5 Now, this must be very bad for you," said he, suddenly rousing from a little reverie, "to be coming and finding us here.
6 She was in a desponding reverie.
7 While the furze-gatherers had desultorily conversed thus Eustacia's face gradually bent to the hearth in a profound reverie, her toe unconsciously tapping the dry turf which lay burning at her feet.
8 He looked at her wistfully, then seemed to fall into a reverie, as if he were forgetting what he observed.
9 She was disturbed in her reverie by a voice behind, and turning her head beheld the old lover and fortunate inheritor of wealth immediately beside her.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
10 We had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he roused himself from his reverie.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
11 He had fallen into a reverie, with the moss-rose between his fingers.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
12 She did not know that her face had changed, that reverie had brought a softness to her face which Rhett had never seen before.
13 So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of reverie lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self.
14 He seemed to have abandoned himself to a reverie, and to be seeing pleasing visions in the amber bead.
15 When she came back Robert was not examining the pictures and magazines as before; he sat off in the shadow, leaning his head back on the chair as if in a reverie.
Example Sentence:
1 He was awakened from his reverie by the teacher's question.
2 Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.