Example sentences for: imaginary

How can you use “imaginary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Of course the teasing has not abated, and the weight of my imaginary dunce cap is giving me a headache.

  • There are passages where Roth, describing the rural New Jersey landscape from within the Swede's benign imagination, produces a fine, sugary lyricism that is not more than 5 percent ironic--a lyricism of white pasture fences and rolling hay fields and the Swede pretending to be Johnny Appleseed, tossing his imaginary seed.

  • How it came about the the myth could take the place of history, and feed both fiction and utopia, that fiction in the form of dogma of various kinds could take the place of science, that science could progressively dominate fiction, that history, in eliminating myth, could itself become a science, at the cost of a ruthless battle between the imaginary and the real--a battle whose outcome, even today, remains unclear--this story reads like a novel: and in any case, doesn't the word history itself, which designates a succession of facts through time, also encapsulate the word story: a tale, a fable, an imaginary account?

  • [ 4 ] For example: When engaged in imaginary play children are often in a state of self-hypnosis; when bored in a classroom students sometimes use self-hypnosis to imagine themselves engaged in an activity elsewhere; and mental rehearsal of a performance is often done in a state of self-hypnosis.

  • In My Brother we see the real McCoy and she is, if anything, more formidable than her various imaginary incarnations.


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