Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: dreamt
IPA transcription: [dɹ'ɛmt]
Usage examples
  • Well, at least, this is what I dreamt.
  • I've been asleep and dreamt I was driving over the snow with bells, and I dozed.
  • I offer no apology for this: I have often dreamt even worse of myself than that.
  • I DREAMT one night not long ago that I was the editor of a great illustrated magazine.
  • I dreamt that the chamber was still decorated with the portraits of ancient authors, but that the number was increased.
  • 'I dreamt I was walking on a wide road, and an oak tree said to me: "Ask the king this: Rotten at the roots, half dead, and yet green stands the old oak.
  • Genji well remembered the dream which he had dreamt at Suma, and in which his father, the late ex-Emperor, had made a faint allusion to his fallen state.
  • It is true, we think we would have slept better if we had not dreamt, but here we are wrong; as a matter of fact, we would not have slept at all without the help of the dream.
  • This rough kind of life, though he did not know it, was to fit him for the toils and ills of war, of which he may have dreamt in those days, as he still kept up his love for war-like things.
  • For instance, I once dreamt about a kind of swimming-bath where the bathers suddenly separated in all directions; at one place on the edge a person stood bending towards one of the bathers as if to drag him out.