How to Use imagination in a Sentence

imagination

noun
  • Is it just my imagination, or is it getting warm in here?
  • You can find a solution if you use a little imagination.
  • The author does not tell us what happens to the characters. We have to use our imagination.
  • He's a competent writer, but he lacks imagination.
  • That was the kind of stuff that made our imaginations run wild.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Have fun with it and let your imagination go wild, with these tips to guide you.
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2023
  • Recruit the kids to help and let their imaginations run wild.
    Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2024
  • But, the best part about the toy was how the doll could come to life by simply using your imagination.
    Joyann Jeffrey, NBC News, 24 July 2023
  • Sawyer is the first to notice, because the imagination of a kid is always in tune with things that go bump in the night.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • So much of the film is just that kind of trying to give a sense of imagination around what Texas could be and what America could be.
    Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2023
  • What’s missing from the film is the spark that leaps the gap from imagination to reality.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Since then, the trucks have leaped into the public imagination.
    Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • For more than 40 years, Mann has worked to close that gap between the idealized imagination, and the world beyond it.
    John Semley, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Erté’s designs and sketches have always been a feast for the imagination and eyes.
    Naomi Rougeau, ELLE, 14 June 2023
  • Those things can give you a ton of energy and imagination.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Take this Naked Cake as the most sublime canvas for your imagination!
    Beth Kirby, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • As everyone knows, the best horror stories are the ones that fire the imagination of the audience.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2023
  • At age 7, her imagination soared with an immense sense of fear around the sensations and sounds evoked by this spirit.
    Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • What’s left isn’t beyond the scope of human imagination.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The title Saltburn already gives away her bias and lack of imagination.
    Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
  • For the better part of two decades, Clinton has gripped the cultural imagination around the idea of a first female president.
    Amanda Hess, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • One that’s just enough of a caricature to work its way into the public imagination and become the avatar of a movement.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • In the popular imagination, the islands are a place where plush resorts fringed by loamy sand invite you to do nothing at all.
    David Swanson, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Paladini’s imagination ran wild with thoughts of a soybean that dripped blood: a chimera that packed all the flavor of pig meat into a seedling.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2024
  • But if even a hint of life persists, it must be pursued with vigor: a new call to discover and study the worlds that fill our galaxy and our imaginations.
    Kaitlin Rasmussen, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Daydreamers, look closely: The head line can also even tell you a bit about your imagination.
    Alyssa Girdwain, Women's Health, 31 May 2023
  • Over the past few years, Johnson, 34, has become known for two distinct things in the popular imagination.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Indeed, it was designed like a plethora of carpets — magic, of course, to those willing to let their imagination take them for a ride.
    Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Maps of real places are, in execution if not use, as much works of the imagination as maps of fictitious places are.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • What dominates the local imagination now is oil and gas.
    Gaiutra Bahadur Keisha Scarville, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024

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