How to Use imagine that in a Sentence

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  • No one there could imagine that no one here had heard of him.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Then imagine that it’s all covered by one bill that doesn’t break the bank.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Now imagine that the performers are not full-fledged singers and dancers.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Now imagine that sweaty nausea in front of tens of thousands of screaming fans.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Even the choir-singing quarterback couldn’t imagine that.
    Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 25 May 2024
  • Now imagine that sweet, cooling flavor in a dreamy dessert.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 16 July 2023
  • If you’re signed to a label, then imagine that numbers cut at least 50 percent.
    A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Who wouldn't want to imagine that their work was so impressive in college that their professor noticed and now wants to pass along a tip on a job?
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 22 May 2024
  • Now imagine that your finger rotates downward to press against the bottom pane instead.
    R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Now imagine that same koala, or one quite like it, weighing in at a much more manageable (and potentially cuter) six pounds.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Hard to imagine that, before the Chedi opened, Andermatt didn't have a single swimming pool.
    Tom Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2023
  • People imagine that going off to college is the chance to completely change yourself.
    Abigail MacK, refinery29.com, 27 July 2023
  • Others imagine that a new leader of a new government could offer real change — not in the next month or two of war, but through a gradual shift in the status quo.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Few would imagine that this same country has just elected a female President.
    Viri Rios, TIME, 3 June 2024
  • Now imagine that pro football has been the country’s defining leisure activity for 150 years.
    Bruce Schoenfeld Robert Fass Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 4 May 2024
  • Now imagine that that bleak setting also has a touch of otherworldly whimsy.
    Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In this case, the three Vs are not connected, but our brains imagine that there are additional three lines completing their singular shape.
    Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
  • To better understand this concept, imagine that a transmission line shorts to ground or a generator trips due to a lightning strike.
    Benjamin Kroposki, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Settlers liked to imagine that their takeover was swift and natural, that Native Americans were already en route to extinction.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The Band’s main audience in 1969 was draft-age American youth; nobody was innocent enough to imagine that this was a song about a previous century.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Little could anybody at the time imagine that the Salon would be forgotten while the ‘upstarts’ would fundamentally alter the course of art history.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Acts as extreme as the Navy having a rainbow Twitter banner during Pride month this year were enough to light the fire underneath 218 House members to put the foot down on letting anyone imagine that military members might be gay.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 14 July 2023
  • Recent estimates imagine that there are one sextillion — a billion trillions — of habitable planets in the universe.
    Garrett M. Graff, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Now, imagine that story reinforcing itself from the perspectives of various griots, or chroniclers, or for the sake of this exercise, spinners.
    Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
  • Surely these parents don’t imagine that their son will enter the binge-drinking atmosphere of the typical college campus limiting his own excess due to the sophistication he’s acquired by being a social drinker at home.
    Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Many lay observers, and quite a few professional commentators, imagine that this dominance affords the United States great economic advantages.
    Paul Krugman, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Now imagine that the media and medical coverage of its release are almost uniformly negative or sensationalistic.
    Time, 28 June 2023
  • Some may imagine that artificial intelligence can help resolve these uncertainties.
    Shawn Walsh, Quanta Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • People often imagine that authoritarian leaders have endless political capital.
    Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023

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