How to Use dreamer in a Sentence

dreamer

noun
  • These air signs are thinkers and dreamers — with a mind of swirling thoughts and ideas.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 2020-04-08
  • And for the record, this country was not built for dreamers.
    — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 2018-02-08
  • And, yet, these dreamers and buffoons stayed at their post.
    — Richard Brady, National Review, 2019-08-31
  • Must be nice to go through life as a billionaire dreamer.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 2017-11-02
  • The young people are our future and these dreamers are part of that.
    — Jeremy Wallace, Houston Chronicle, 2018-02-16
  • The same dreamer who ran away from fieldwork to attend school.
    — Tia Mitchell, ajc, 2020-07-18
  • These dreamers are still dreaming, but the alarm is going off.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 2025-02-26
  • Perfect for the poet, the dreamer, the one whose soul needs rest.
    — Star Tribune, 2020-11-19
  • Not just for me but for this group of dreamers that make up La Base.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 2023-12-01
  • The dreamers are standing up for women’s right to choose.
    — Aaron Morrison and Ayanna Alexander, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-08-26
  • The dreamers are standing up for women's right to choose.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 2023-08-27
  • Every dreamer in this room, there are people whose lives are tied to your dream.
    — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 2019-06-24
  • His friends knew Jim as a dreamer and a helper — a good person gone too soon.
    — Tucker Reals, CBS News, 2022-03-18
  • There’s no need to choose between being a dreamer and a doer.
    — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 2021-09-07
  • In one such dream, the dreamer was held down by infected people who coughed on her.
    — Gillian Flaccus, The Denver Post, 2020-04-28
  • The melancholic was often an artist, a scholar, or a dreamer.
    — National Geographic, 2016-08-19
  • For dreamers who still cling to hope in the City of Angels, there needs to be.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 2025-04-30
  • This was once a city of dreamers, a gold town that seduced prospectors from all over hoping to strike it rich.
    — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 2023-05-17
  • The cynic in me found the vision hokey; the dreamer in me would have liked to disappear with them.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2018-06-24
  • The main roadblock to getting something done on the dreamers is the White House.
    — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 2018-06-15
  • The land may be gone, but the dream will remain, and there will continue to be dreamers in dozens of countries, ready to die for the cause.
    — Graeme Wood, Foreign Affairs, 2017-08-15
  • Although Texas was the first to pass a state dreamers act, about half of U.S. states followed its lead.
    — Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 2025-07-06
  • Goby teaches kids that the world needs all types: the dreamers, the doers, the behind-the-scene types, and the on-stage actors.
    — Amanda Rock, Parents, 2024-07-30
  • For in this relationship, Erica is the dreamer and Vicky the one with the plan.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2017-06-02
  • For the Icelandic rock dreamer Lars, Ferrell felt the need for a full mane, fighting for the right to wig out.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 2020-05-18
  • On the first Monday of every month, the venue opens its doors to dreamers and shower singers to join a public choir and shine in the limelight.
    — Yousra Attia, ELLE, 2023-06-09
  • That may be the most common put-down of the White House dreamers who are languishing in the pre-primary polls.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 2023-09-11
  • The name of the woman, the dreamer in this case—or one of the two dreamers who had the same dream—was Adele Amelia Gleason.
    — John Jeremiah Sullivan, Harpers Magazine, 2025-04-29
  • Netflix still hosted his 2023 special The Dreamer, which had even more anti-trans humor.
    — Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 11 Aug. 2025
  • Available in shades ranging from the honey-nude Dreamer to the classic red Rich AF, the formulation contains the patented peptide complex Maxi Lip to plump the pout.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2025

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