Example sentences for: imagines

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

  • Dole imagines himself a bridge "to a time of tranquillity, faith, and confidence," so I'd ask him to what village or America his bridge will carry folks like me--seeing as folks like me don't have children or traditional families.

  • I think you've got one thing exactly right: The Sopranos works so well precisely because it is understated, because it is the opposite of the operatic Godfather . Together, The Godfather and The Sopranos make up some kind of whole, but here's the fundamental difference between them: Every mobster I've ever met imagines himself a player in The Godfather . I interviewed Sammy Gravano a few weeks ago and he said as much; The Godfather invested the lives of mobsters, who are in fact seedy and boring characters, with honor and drama.

  • He imagines a future where the call of every minority for inclusion, by quota, destroys the meritocratic principle of his favored scientist-citizenry.

  • (This is assuming, of course, one imagines it lucky to wind up in the presidential race.)

  • New York 's Mark Stevens imagines a young Rauschenberg mocking the exhibition's "pumped-up size."


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