imagine that

idiom

used to express that something is remarkable
This tree is more than 300 years old. Imagine that!

Examples of imagine that in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Yet to imagine that an 85-year-old filmmaker, who’s suffered great loss and experienced great love, who’s spent a lifetime thinking about history’s heroes and villains and thinkers, and who’s willing to risk it all for one last magnum opus can’t really be considered naive. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 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 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 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 Now imagine that sweaty nausea in front of tens of thousands of screaming fans. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024 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 If you’re signed to a label, then imagine that numbers cut at least 50 percent. A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024 Then imagine that it’s all covered by one bill that doesn’t break the bank. Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024

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“Imagine that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imagine%20that. Accessed 19 May. 2024.

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