How to Use imaginary in a Sentence

imaginary

adjective

• The two groups were separated by an imaginary line down the middle of the room.
• There’s no Bing Bong, the imaginary friend that broke hearts by the hundreds in the first film.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2024
• Crouser would have to toss the sphere past the imaginary record.
  — oregonlive, 30 July 2021
• Draw an imaginary line from where the Sun rose in the east, through Jupiter and Saturn, and to where the Sun will set in the west.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2022
• And that imaginary attachment was strong enough to keep me in the theatre for the rest of my life.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2023
• But in an age when numbers are fudged and so much about the league is imaginary?
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Mar. 2021
• Outside, a voice actor read from a script of what Siri would say as the men zoomed down the road in the imaginary car.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 3 Mar. 2024
• In this sense, both the past and the future are imaginary, but real, too, as ideas.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• In this imaginary scenario, all of the stars in the universe are not moving at all.
  — Brian Jackson, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
• In the mixed zone after the game, Taurasi passed an imaginary torch to Ionescu.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024
• In the lingo, this imaginary place is known as the Metaverse.
  — James Heskett, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2021
• The drill sergeant would taunt them with an imaginary finish line.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
• The two are wearing witch costumes and pose in front of the imaginary Land of Oz skyline.
  — Gerald Eskenazi, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• The girl would often tell Lê about her own imaginary friend.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
• There are imaginary bases at home and down what would be the first and third baselines in baseball.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2022
• Lisa’s new imaginary friend is a depressed British singer from the 1980s, and Homer becomes a truck guy.
  — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2021
• The opera follows a dreamer’s journey to find a rose in an imaginary world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Something that can be added to your kitchen now that could be part of your imaginary kitchen too is a pot filler faucet.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 11 Mar. 2021
• The sun crosses these imaginary points on the first day of spring and the first day of fall, respectively.
  — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Mar. 2021
• Sometimes the shape of an imaginary place can summon up the real world.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• In 1972, a paperback book was one of the best ways to lose yourself for a few hours in an imaginary realm.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2021
• During the promotion of RRR, the imaginary lines were blurred.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2023
• Try to draw your own districts in this imaginary state.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2022
• Andrade landed her vault and snared the gold medal — and Biles’ imaginary crown.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
• It is set in an imaginary African village, in the eighties.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• The film came from an imaginary place and became real in the most tragic way.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Jan. 2022
• What if their imaginary friends are something from the spirit world?
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
• Yet physicists may have just shown for the first time that imaginary numbers are, in a sense, real.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2021
• At his imaginary office at the CDC, Kennedy has already laid out the tarot cards on the desk and with no scientific evidence to back it up, says the cards read that vaccines are bad.
  — A.j. Russo, Baltimore Sun, 3 Dec. 2024
• Miller’s estate shared the trailer on YouTube, which splices clips of a little boy and his sprawling imaginary life of human-like animals going on a journey through a carnival.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024