daydreamlike

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for daydreamlike
Adjective
  • For someone who had spent most of his career with a low caesar, seeing himself with hair was surreal—and as expected, with growth also came grays.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Set to the same eerily catchy tune by composer Theodore Shapiro, the Season 2 incarnation of the credits — seen for the first time in Episode 2, now streaming — are even more haunting, diving into the surreal world of Mark’s brain and introducing other characters and landscapes.
    Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Perfect justice is illusory because our parents or birthplace are serendipitous.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
  • To me, the ending leaves as an open question whether Tóth has retreated to illusory safe ground or found a more hospitable home.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Doing so could constitute a deceptive trade practice, and the Colorado Attorney General’s Office or local district attorneys could then investigate to determine the cause of the price hike.
    Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The 81-page federal complaint charging Universal Music Group with defamation, harassment and payola (deceptive business practices) is a page-turner that seems penned more for press and public consumption (and perhaps label renegotiation) than judicial inspection.
    Bill Hochberg, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In his office, Berg used an ice axe to pitch Smith on a collaboration, which would eventually follow a fictional frontiersman and mother-son duo navigating the Westward expansion.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The duo first shared the screen in 1999's Any Given Sunday, which follows a fictional professional football team.
    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This immersive documentary is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of 67-year-old Lloyd, a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
  • In many ways, her comical, woozy dream scenes are archetypal hallucinatory visions.
    Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Given the clandestine nature of the process, the true number of fictitious sons who arrived during exclusion will never be known.
    Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Detectives also found that Labelle allegedly altered several documents and provided the homeowner with fictitious receipts to deceive them, according to Riley.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • If a planet is visible from the night side of Earth, it can only ever be seen along an imaginary path through the sky called the ecliptic.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Monday’s victory was only a month and a week removed from one of the more embarrassing losses of the Knicks season, an NBA Cup quarterfinal loss Young punctuated by rolling a set of imaginary die on The Garden’s center-court logo.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Also lost were performance posters, a bust of Schoenberg and ephemera such as the fanciful playing card sets the composer designed.
    Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Dress up dapper because moody Francis Hall is sophisticated, intimate and crafting fanciful sips. KILN Location: Hotel Heron: 699 Prince St, Alexandria, VA 22314 For Saturday dinner, visit KILN, which just so happens to be the ground-floor restaurant at the hotel.
    Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Daydreamlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daydreamlike. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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