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Example sentences for "dreamily"

Lexicographically close words:
dreamer; dreamers; dreames; dreameth; dreamful; dreaminess; dreaming; dreamings; dreamland; dreamless
  1. Dreamily she leant her head on his shoulder, and the fragrance of her fresh, sweet girlhood touched his senses.

  2. Tall willows bent dreamily over the stream; the steep, green banks were bathed in sunlight; tall burdocks flourished amid the nettles, and prickly thistles became entangled in the lace trimming of Lida's dress.

  3. He rolled and lit a cigarette and, after carefully extinguishing the match, gazed dreamily awhile across at the mountains, behind which the sun was gradually disappearing.

  4. Cheek to cheek, they were silent awhile, gazing dreamily across at the distant "Rockies.

  5. Benton got up and, leaning out of the open window, looked dreamily away over the sun-scorched prairie.

  6. She said that Nan's God was a stout widower in a clerical band; whereat Nan would smile dreamily and answer, "Wouldn't it be just ripping if God were?

  7. Behind still trees of the meadows, beneath which cattle grazed, spires and domes soared dreamily against the deep horizon.

  8. He ate his supper dreamily and retrospectively.

  9. She was gazing dreamily at Mary Louise as though the latter were a creature of another world come vaguely intruding.

  10. Windekind had told him this one such tranquil autumn day, and Johannes dreamily drank in the faint earthy smell which came up from the mouldering ground.

  11. He gazed dreamily at the dancing ripples, the bursting leaf-buds; he listened to the chirping of the birds.

  12. It was like the vibration of a harp-string, which thrills dreamily for a long time, seeming to die away and yet still be there.

  13. Sometimes he would, as it were, wake up, and spur himself back into something like good labouring form; but after a little time he would relapse, and go dreamily humming about his work like a very old man.

  14. He sat in a chair and lounged dreamily as he puffed out clouds of smoke, his long legs sprawling out in front of him.

  15. She was dreamily contemplating the beauties of the night.

  16. I meet the right one," said Anne, smiling dreamily up at the moonlight.

  17. She sat staring dreamily out of the window until a slight breeze fluttering the sheets of paper still clutched in her fingers reminded her that she had read only two of the twenty pages.

  18. Lloyd and Kitty leaned lazily back against the mossy trunk, and Allison, with her arms around her knees, gazed dreamily across the river.

  19. With chin in hand and elbows resting on the sill, she was gazing dreamily out at the willow-fringed banks, so absorbed in her thoughts that she did not hear Juliet's first knock.

  20. Bees were dreamily humming over the wealth of honeysuckles and roses that covered the cottage-wall, gathering their sweet and fragrant food at their leisure.

  21. It is the fanciful, dreamily sweet name of the place; and the pure life and neighborly love ever adorning and brightening that graceful and kindly house-roof, make June sunshine all over the lovely place the year round.

  22. Captain Burnett put down this letter, and looked dreamily out of the window.

  23. He looks at her, dreamily at first, then takes her hand.

  24. Old Matt shook his head, and, leaning forward unseen by his companion, he took a firm hold of her dress, for the girl went on dreamily as she looked down on the black water.

  25. She listened dreamily to the echoes that seemed to linger among the dark foliage.

  26. Yes; with you in Germany," repeated Hartmut slowly, and his glance was lost dreamily in the dusk of the forest.

  27. Now they were riveted dreamily upon the shining blue of the sky, with a consuming longing in their depths.

  28. Modesta had paid no more attention to this raving outburst than she had paid to the race which had preceded it; she had stopped singing when the others stopped, but her eyes still gazed dreamily at the sky.

  29. Now, as he sat there, dreamily cracking almonds, he began to regret his reticence.

  30. He had succeeded in striking a light now, and was smoking placidly enough on the boat's edge, but dreamily thoughtful, as if he were recalling matters that were past.

  31. He smiled with perfect content, wondering dreamily if it would never end; then consciousness was lost in utter oblivion.

  32. And the Visconti banner floated out dreamily upon the light spring breeze, and the rider rode at ease and read from the parchment with a smiling face.

  33. Colter, who had as he talked been dreamily staring at the river, sprang quickly back to an attitude of attention.

  34. The woman's voice was always dreamily in Shipman's memory.

  35. Gertrude, the leader of the village girls, smiled dreamily at the car in question.

  36. The smile that plays so dreamily and full of presage about her lips, is like the smile of a bride--as if the fete to which she is looking forward were her wedding.

  37. A few minutes ago they were planning nonsense, now they have solemnly folded their hands and are gazing dreamily towards the sunset.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dreamily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.