How to Use imagine in a Sentence
imagine
verb
- It was worse than they had imagined.
- I imagine it will snow at some point today.
- He asked us to imagine a world without poverty or war.
- It's hard for me to imagine having children.
- The company will do better next year, I imagine.
- He was imagining all sorts of terrible things happening.
- It's difficult to imagine that these changes will really be effective.
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Just imagine having to dry-clean the same cape for decades, since the film is set in the present.
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Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
22 Mar. 2023
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At the time, Brown couldn’t imagine the ripples his hit would cause.
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Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2023
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The year 1994 was a good time to imagine the concept of wealth filtered through the eyes of children.
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Monica Hesse,
Washington Post,
16 Feb. 2023
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But just take a moment to imagine it in your mind’s eye.
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Vulture,
22 Jan. 2023
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And remember back to the first John Wick and imagine how that script would’ve read.
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Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Mar. 2023
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The last year did not go the way either Biden or Morris had imagined.
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Matt Hamilton,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Jan. 2024
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Just imagine curling up in this chair with a good book.
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Caroline Hallemann,
Town & Country,
20 Nov. 2022
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So just imagine what that does for my mother, who was born in 1948.
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Lorraine Ali,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Nov. 2023
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Can't even imagine how stressful it's been for her through all of this.
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Duane Rankin,
The Arizona Republic,
9 Dec. 2022
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Friends of the victim said she was widely liked and couldn't imagine who would want to harm her.
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Jesse Kirsch,
NBC News,
8 Nov. 2023
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As for the words themselves, there’s nothing to imagine.
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Chris Richards,
Washington Post,
27 July 2023
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Trying to imagine the sad dream that Eleanor Rigby lives in?
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
5 Nov. 2022
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No one can imagine the things that this regime has done to Syrians.
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Ed Meza,
Variety,
15 Nov. 2022
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Or could Reeves imagine somehow reprising the role in a fifth John Wick movie?
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Clark Collis,
EW.com,
25 Mar. 2023
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Trips that were planned, or at least mentioned, or at least imagined.
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Hazlitt,
30 Aug. 2023
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Now imagine, for a second, if all of that was reversed.
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Brian Merchant,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Sep. 2023
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Like, hard-to-imagine-we're-still-doing-this-in-2022 big.
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Ron Amadeo,
Ars Technica,
6 Oct. 2022
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Hard to imagine a 15 foot difference from one end to the other.
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Travis Andersen,
BostonGlobe.com,
23 Dec. 2022
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That is easier imagined than done, as Michael and I both know.
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How To Save A Country,
The New Republic,
13 Apr. 2023
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Now imagine what the asking price for Jackson would be.
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Chad Finn,
BostonGlobe.com,
19 Jan. 2023
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But the two did chat about how Rosheuvel imagined Charlotte’s younger life over drinks.
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Helena Andrews-Dyer,
Washington Post,
5 May 2023
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In terms of getting back to sleep, nothing is to be gained by imagining this.
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Ian Frazier,
The New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2024
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The current plans for the redevelopment imagine a third of the acreage set aside to expand the park and rewild a wetlands habitat that could support endangered species populations and expand the ecosystem near the Santa Cruz River.
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John Leos,
The Arizona Republic,
1 Nov. 2024
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