REVERIE


Meaning of REVERIE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

interrupt

Lyddy interrupted her reverie with the cream silk dress laid across her arms like an offering.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Auntie interrupted my reveries.

Sometimes he would drift off into reverie , and gaze out of the window for hours.

The doorbell rang, shaking me from my reverie .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As the train slid slowly into Asansol station, Brother Mariadas, suddenly wide awake, shook me out of my reverie .

He lay near sleep, falling into reverie , the powerful world of Oswald-hero, guns flashing in the dark.

If painful reveries of any kind had once overwhelmed him, they did so no longer.

In those early days of the war, the Continental Palace Hotel was still locked in a colonial reverie .

She was startled out of her reverie by a ring on the door-bell.

Valence also smiled, though his was a pensive smile, a smile of reverie .

Wiping his mind clean of all extraneous thoughts, he concentrated on his reveries.

With a contented sigh, he lost himself in a colourful reverie of big business deals and boardroom power games.

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