How to use imaginary in a sentence

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• She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.From the entry kid
• The poem re-enchants the bull by setting imaginary walls and thresholds around it.From the entry re-enchant
• He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.From the entry come
• Imaginary colors are those that mathematically exist, sure, but we’ll never see them.2024 September 24, Tyler Thrasher, Terry Mudge, The Universe in 100 Colors: Weird and Wondrous Colors from Science and Nature, Sasquatch…. From the entry impossible color
• They didn’t have anxious conversations with imaginary doctors; they actually did something.2022 January 27, Derek Thompson, “Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?”, in The Atlantic. From the entry dorveille
• The circle is the imaginary boundary we draw around those we consider worthy of moral consideration.2019 April 4, Sigal Samuel, “Should animals, plants, and robots have the same rights as you?”, in Vox. From the entry moral circle
• This way, throughout the planet, imaginary beings appear that are analyzed here with psychology and even elfology.2018, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, volume 20, GobBsAs, Secretaría de Cultura, Subsecretaría de Gestión e…. From the entry elfology
• When a class was boring, he doodled intricate maps of imaginary lands.2015 July 24, Gareth Cook, “The Singular Mind of Terry Tao”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry terry
• For such v the endomorphism ring End(E(v)) of E(v) is an order in an imaginary quadratic field.2015, Yuri G. Zarhin, “Endomorphism rings of reductions of elliptic curves and abelian varieties”, in arXiv. From the entry nonarchimedean
• However, Klein's phantasy is not exactly Lacan's imaginary fantasy; it is, I think, more than that.2013, Lene Austed, quoting Jonathan Davidoff, “Introducing Psychoanalysis and Politics”, in Nationalism and the Body Politic, →ISBN, page…. From the entry phantasy
• These different imaginary units have no interaction, we leave unaltered the product ij.2013, J. A. Sparenberg, Hydrodynamic Propulsion and Its Optimization, Springer, page 183. From the entry imaginary unit
• She crossed her eyes and stuck out her tongue, holding an imaginary noose above her neck.2012, Tom Ryan, Way to Go, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry yoinks
• Rob finished cleaning his empty gun then pointed it at an imaginary target and dry fired.2009, Debra Parmley, A Desperate Journey, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry dry fire
• It is an imaginary comparison of one thing or idea or action rather than direct statement.2009 April, C. Arinola Akinmade, “Figures of Association and Sound in some Nigerian Proverbs: Examples from Ondo Culture”, in African…. From the entry paramiographer
• At other times we flee from an imaginary Castilianism only to fall into a real one.2009, Pompeu Fabra, translated by Alan Yates, The Architect of Modern Catalan, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry Castilianism
• As actors, we are still looking out into the imaginary fourth wall.2003, Cathy Haase, Acting for Film, page 92. From the entry fourth wall
• Frequently, developers also consider a third kind of proprietary technology: the imaginary one.2003 May, Alex Macris, “Effective Middleware Evaluation”, in Game Developer, volume 10, number 5, San Francisco, Calif.: CMP Media, →ISSN…. From the entry dreamware
• Nervously, he wiped the gun of fingerprints real and imaginary with the stocking-covered fingers.1974, Patricia Highsmith, chapter 7, in Ripley's Game. From the entry fingerprint
• On another shield is engraved the Company’s crest—an epimacus, an imaginary beast resembling a griffin.1966, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, volume 39, page 367. From the entry epimacus
• It is more on the imaginary side than the matter of fact.1919 February 15, The Garden: […], volume 83, London: Hudson and Kearns, →OCLC, page 69, column 3. From the entry barometz
• The tactleneck (five imaginary points if you got this reference).2021 August 20, Ryan Conway, “Football pundit trainers, The Simpsons wardrobe and too many club tracksuits: Analysing the fashion sense of…. From the entry tactleneck
• An imaginary time, without boundary, without beginning or end.2020, Fady Joudah, “Your Name is on the List and Other Vignettes”, in Pauline Kaldas, Khaled Mattawa, editors, Beyond Memory: An Anthology…. From the entry gulag
• In fact Makalu is neither imaginary, nor the ninth tallest mountain- it's the fifth tallest and that's the point.2019 June 24, John Oliver, 18:15 from the start, in Everest: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO. From the entry Makalu
• Stalwart TJLCers were the only ones clever enough to have unearthed the plot and follow the trail of the imaginary breadcrumbs.2017, Christopher Redmond, About Being a Sherlockian: 60 Essays Celebrating the Sherlock Holmes Community, page 171. From the entry TJLCer
• It's our fictive nemesis, our imaginary bad guys.2011, Josh Linkner, “Gaining the Keys to a Creative Mind and Culture”, in Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough…. From the entry eat someone's lunch
• "Dream House" is the full magilla, with imaginary images, sanity questions, peek-a-boo startles and the usual are-they-real-or-not? characters.2011 September 30, Joe Neumaier, “'Dream House' review: Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz thriller is just an embarrassing nightmare”, in New…. From the entry magilla
• It is the concept of creating an imaginary world.2010 August 13, Ken, “Welcome!”, in conworlding (Usenet). From the entry conworlding
• The message here is that we must introduce imaginary numbers in order to be able to solve quadratic equations in general.2008, Donald A. McQuarrie, Mathematics for Physical Chemistry: Opening Doors, University Science Books, page 54. From the entry imaginary number
• Consider two sets of death rates by age for two imaginary countries, Syldavia (S) and Borduria (B), as in Figure 15-1.2006, chapter 15, in Graziella Caselli, Jacques Vallin, Guillaume Wunsch, editors, Demography: Analysis and Synthesis, Four Volume Set: A…. From the entry Borduria
• They clapped their hands and stroked their imaginary rasta locks while smoking a spleef that was large on any standard.2004, Edward B. Kissam Jr., Rebel Mart: Sugar Beach, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry spleef
• The hawkers' athletic contrappostos, intellectual and imaginary rather than plausible, speak of the mind's superiority to the body.2002, Sean Shesgreen, “Broadsheet Cries and British Commerce”, in Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London…. From the entry contrapposto
• Pressing an imaginary button, Crichton said, "Bzzt!2001, Keith R A DeCandido, Rockne S O'Bannon, Farscape: House of Cards. From the entry bzzt
• These experts type some aerophobes as psychocentric individuals so self-focused on imaginary problems they have little energy left to enjoy life.1972, Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 108, column 1. From the entry psychocentric
• The Equator, as everyone knows, is an imaginary line or circle girdling the Earth half-way between the North and South poles.1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning, page 36. From the entry girdle
• Perhaps it is the scant, delicate detail revealing finer lines, which thus turns corners of Tuscany into an imaginary Hellas.1905, Vernon Lee [pseudonym; Violet Paget], The Enchanted Woods and Other Essays on the Genius of Places, London; New York, N.Y.: John…. From the entry sere
• René de Saussure, who was actually only hoping for an imaginary international unit of currency that would enable convenient conversions between national currencies.2022 July 18, Bert Boon, “Numismatics: an Esperanto cultural treasure trove no longer in the dark (2)”, in Esperantic Studies Foundation…. From the entry speso

Meaning of imaginary

1. adjective Existing only in the imagination.
2. adjective Relating or belonging to the imagination.
3. adjective Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of √ (called imaginary unit).

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Questions about imaginary in a sentence

How do you use imaginary in a sentence?

Imaginary is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Unicorns are imaginary.”

What is a short sentence with imaginary?

“Unicorns are imaginary.”

What does imaginary mean?

Imaginary means existing only in the imagination.