How to Use stream of consciousness in a Sentence

stream of consciousness

noun phrase
  • The whole song is a long stream of consciousness.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Your story today was effectively a stream of consciousness rant with a bunch of screenshots.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • Your story today was effectively a stream of consciousness rant with a bunch of screenshots.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
  • The song just came to me, from somewhere, populating seamlessly in a stream of consciousness.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • All of us were instantly riding the Diane Keaton stream of consciousness.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
  • This is a stream of consciousness exercise where the leader simply writes down whatever comes to mind, focusing on emotions.
    — Gregory Stebbins, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Part three includes a compelling contrast between a stream of consciousness style and a formal, academic register.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Each one uses a kind of stream of consciousness recollection of touchstones in their early Houston life to build the framework of their current project.
    — Jef Rouner, Houston Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Many of the videos also seem to reflect his thoughts or stream of consciousness, an aspect of social media that the artist said is really only available by posting on TikTok.
    — Kate Perez, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Written in the style of stream of consciousness, largely without full stops or capital letters, the novel does read like a narration in one breath, as if weaving an unbroken chain of thought that moves between past and present.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 May 2026
  • Woolf’s trademark stream of consciousness, her quick and seamless moves from one character or experience to another, means that the past, present, and future intertwine as if no barrier separates them.
    — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The poem’s narrative frequently shifts between different speakers and languages, and Eliot employed a range of styles and techniques, including free verse and stream of consciousness.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • The reader bobs along in the author’s stream of consciousness, riding crests of despair, anger, and hilarity as Toews assembles the shards of her past to investigate her will to write, which is deeply entwined with her will to live.
    — Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Works by Granara, for example, recall elements of spirituality and stream of consciousness.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 7 May 2026
  • In the stream of consciousness, the passage of time is continuous, irresistible, and complex, encompassing not only succession but also flow, duration, and persistence.
    — Anil Seth, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Drawing, perhaps, on her neurological research at Johns Hopkins as well as William James’s ideas of thought as a stream of consciousness, Stein was thinking deeply about perception, and the way the brain processes language.
    — Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The Sound and The Fury Told by four narrators in a stream of consciousness writing style, this 1929 story describes the downfall of a wealthy Southern aristocratic family, the Compsons.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 25 June 2026

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