The patient appeared to be thinking: his eyes, slightly open, stared dreamily at the ceiling.

"We'd come out with trays and serve people in their cars," he said, staring dreamily beyond the round windows.

Instead she lifted her head and stared dreamily around the examination room.

He stares dreamily at the stage where Vicki is performing her act.

That young man was already sitting on one of the six stools, legs crossed, eyes staring dreamily into space.

She'd been reading for the past hour, but now she was staring dreamily out the window.

He was sitting by one of the rock pools, staring dreamily into the water, smiling.

She and her husband had been staring dreamily into the fire one night when she had told him.

Bill didn't even look around; he just went on staring dreamily at the fat summer clouds marching across the sky.

Staring dreamily while his senior staff stared at him like he'd gone mad.