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How to use imagine in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Imagine means to form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind. Example: “Try to imagine a pink elephant.”

Examples of imagine by meaning

verbTo form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.

  • Try to imagine a pink elephant.
  • Imagine yourself in a packed airport lounge.
  • Imagine sitting on a tropical beach with a cool mimosa.

verbTo believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false.

  • She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.
  • There's nothing there; you're just imagining things.

verbTo assume; to suppose.

  • I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.

verbTo conjecture; to guess.

  • I cannot even imagine what you are up to!
  • The board imagines the merger will increase profits by 25%

verbTo use one's imagination.

  • Imagine that we were siblings.

verbUsed to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through.

  • Imagine thinking that would work.

nounA short fanfic or prompt placing a reader insert in a novel scenario with a character or celebrity.

  • Some imagines are more sexual and creepy than others: "Imagine Stiles walking in on you giving Scott a blowjob."2015 March 2, Laura Starling, “FFIC101: An Introduction to the Horrors of Fanfiction”, in Critic, University of Otago, page 21
  • i personally like imagines and fanfics so i found a good amount of kylo ren x reader fics and started going through them.2016 December, Jocelyn Chambers, “The Exclusion Of People Of Color In Fanfiction”, in Majesty, page 96
  • If I get inspired immediately, I can bust out an imagine in 5-10 minutes.2019, "thranduilsperkybutt", quoted in "Author Spotlight: thranduilsperkybutt", Lemon, February 2019, page 37

More sentences with imagine

  • Maybe I was imagining it, but I could swear that the dog understood what I was saying.From the entry maybe
  • Imagine my surprise on learning I owed twice as much as I thought I did.From the entry surprise
  • Imagine what might happen if it were possible to harness solar energy fully.From the entry harness
  • How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.From the entry likeness
  • Imagine being so insecure that you make it against the law for folks to dislike you.From the entry insecure
  • But imagine, if you will, a world where these logistical problems were solved.From the entry if you will
  • But imagine, if you like, a world where climate change did not exist.From the entry if you like
  • Imagine being a rage hacker and still losing in a 1v1 against a support.From the entry rage hacker
  • I would imagine that they have already left.From the entry would
  • I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.From the entry humor
  • The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.From the entry universe
  • I should imagine that they have arrived by now.From the entry should
  • I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.From the entry humour
  • You're a great deal more beautiful than I ever imagined.From the entry more
  • It wasn't too bad but we did hire an auto (couldn't imagine changing gears with my right hand).From the entry auto
  • Never return evil for evil that's either real or imagined.From the entry imagined
  • Never in a month of Sundays would I have imagined that you'd be this tall in real life!From the entry never in a month of Sundays
  • My date played out a little differently than I imagined.From the entry play out
  • They say that the Gatling who invented Gatling guns imagined that they would reduce the scale of human warfare, poor old chap.From the entry Gatling gun
  • The company had produced several millionaires, but they were illiquid, with not nearly as much cold hard cash as nonrich people might tend to imagine.From the entry cold hard cash
  • When the math teacher is teaching the class about cubes, he asks them to imagine a cardboard box whose width, length, and height are all the same.From the entry cube
  • Mental imagery allows us to remember previous experiences and imagine new ones.2026 April 9, V. S. Wadia, C. M. Reed, J. M. Chung, L. M. Bateman, A. N. Mamelak, “A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in…. From the entry ventral
  • Rather than sit within total absence our brains spin imagined stimuli out into the void.2025 January 15, Jacob Geller, “Fear of Dark” (2:52 from the start), in (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry spin
  • It's hard to imagine a greater source of leverage for the administration.2025 July 31, Leah Downey, “What could a Trump appointee do at the Fed?”, in Financial Times, page 17. From the entry swap line
  • Imagine The Smiths or Joy Division making TikToks to promote their music.2025 June 14, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, quoting James Blake, “James Blake’s fight against ‘free music’”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section)…. From the entry TikTok
  • Your ability to rationalize current things is what’s holding you back from imagining new things.2025 January 24, Waqas, Twitter. From the entry current thing
  • I was made to answer for shortcomings of the space, both real and imagined.2025 April 25, Leah Hope Ajmani, Talia Bhatt, Michael Ann DeVito, “Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering…. From the entry anti-transmasculinity

Meaning of imagine

  1. verb To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
  2. verb To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false.
  3. verb To assume; to suppose.

Full definition of imagine

Questions about imagine in a sentence

How do you use imagine in a sentence?
Imagine is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Try to imagine a pink elephant.”
What is a short sentence with imagine?
“Imagine that we were siblings.”
What does imagine mean?
Imagine means to form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: imagine (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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