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noun

daydream

CEFR C1

absentminded dreaming while awake

In a sentence

Six example sentences with daydream, each labelled with its topic.

  • Researchers found that a short daydream during a dull task often improves later performance on creative puzzles.

    Psychology

  • Walter Mitty slips from the driver's seat into a daydream of flying a bomber through heavy weather.

    Literature

  • The teacher tapped the stand twice, pulling the cellist out of a daydream and back to the second movement.

    Music

  • A long train ride invites a daydream, and she missed her stop while imagining the coast she had not yet reached.

    Travel

  • The manager caught himself in a daydream during the budget review and had to ask for the last slide again.

    Business

  • Every kid on the playground has the same daydream: down one, three seconds left, the ball in their hands.

    Basketball

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