How to Use imaginary in a Sentence

imaginary

adjective

• The two groups were separated by an imaginary line down the middle of the room.
• The film came from an imaginary place and became real in the most tragic way.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Jan. 2022
• There is no speech, but text runs along the bottom of the video: a transcript from an imaginary civil trial.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 2 Aug. 2024
• In this imaginary world inspired by real events, there are no sharp angles — a parent’s dream.
  — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
• Apply the water to the area on the ground, extending outward from the stem to a foot beyond the dripline -- the imaginary line on the ground just below the branch tips.
  — oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2022
• In one of the film’s most amusing scenes, the two engage in slow-motion battle with a variety of weapons, each narrating imaginary wounds as they are inflicted.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2022
• These restrictions often focus on imaginary trans people who are painted as scary boogeymen rather than the real people who are impacted by these bans.
  — Frankie De La Cretaz, SELF, 5 Aug. 2024
• Martins added in her own statement that the ad — which features a community of people passing an imaginary ball through dives, tricks and bites of Lay's — was the right fight.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 4 Mar. 2022
• But Dory, whose imaginary friends include a talking dust bunny and an affectionate monster, proves more than unfazed.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• The best wine reference would be a moscato d’Asti, or a mock bellini for an imaginary trip to Harry’s Bar in Venice.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• In this imaginary world, the direction pointing into the interior seems illusory, like the depth of a hologram.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2022
• All three fall along the same imaginary line that passes through both Earth and sun; two are on either side of Earth, and one is on the far opposite side of Earth's orbit around the sun.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2022
• That won’t happen if the GOP is hobbled by voters fixated on imaginary fraud in the last presidential election.
  — WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
• This did not mean that there was no bloodshed: people died at the hands of thugs who declared themselves in charge and claimed to be hunting down real and imaginary opponents, and other thugs who robbed, killed, and marauded.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The drill sergeant would taunt them with an imaginary finish line.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
• 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
• The opera follows a dreamer’s journey to find a rose in an imaginary world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Sometimes the shape of an imaginary place can summon up the real world.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• 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
• What if their imaginary friends are something from the spirit world?
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
• This one will be aimed at preschool viewers, starring a new crop of preschool-age imaginary friends.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 18 July 2022

Last Updated: 9 Sep 2024