Reveries is an English word. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Reveries meaning
- plural of reverie
- plural of revery
Using Reveries
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of reverie | plural of revery
- In the example corpus, reveries often appears in combinations such as: reveries and.
Context around Reveries
- Average sentence length in these examples: 36.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Reveries
- In this selection, "reveries" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 36.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, juvenile and induced stand out and add context to how "reveries" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include drug induced reveries and of juvenile reveries and rekindle. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "reveries" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with reveries
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In Scorsese on Scorsese, the director talks about how much of the film arose from his feeling that movies are like dreams or drug-induced reveries. (26 words)
It’s clear that Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are stuck in the past, trying to fulfill the outlandish goals of juvenile reveries and rekindle the flame of fame the name Wyld Stallyns used to evoke. (38 words)
The item, offered as a news story, reported, A critical friend, who read Melville's last book, Ambiguities, between two steamboat accidents, told us that it appeared to be composed of the ravings and reveries of a madman. (38 words)
The Vitagraph company's The Man That Might Have Been (William Humphrey, 1914), is even more complex, with a series of reveries and flash-backs that contrast the protagonist's real passage through life with what might have been, if his son had not died. (45 words)
It’s clear that Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are stuck in the past, trying to fulfill the outlandish goals of juvenile reveries and rekindle the flame of fame the name Wyld Stallyns used to evoke. (38 words)
The item, offered as a news story, reported, A critical friend, who read Melville's last book, Ambiguities, between two steamboat accidents, told us that it appeared to be composed of the ravings and reveries of a madman. (38 words)
Example sentences (4)
It’s clear that Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are stuck in the past, trying to fulfill the outlandish goals of juvenile reveries and rekindle the flame of fame the name Wyld Stallyns used to evoke.
In Scorsese on Scorsese, the director talks about how much of the film arose from his feeling that movies are like dreams or drug-induced reveries.
The item, offered as a news story, reported, A critical friend, who read Melville's last book, Ambiguities, between two steamboat accidents, told us that it appeared to be composed of the ravings and reveries of a madman.
The Vitagraph company's The Man That Might Have Been (William Humphrey, 1914), is even more complex, with a series of reveries and flash-backs that contrast the protagonist's real passage through life with what might have been, if his son had not died.
Common combinations with reveries
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: