How to Use imaginary in a Sentence

imaginary

adjective

• The two groups were separated by an imaginary line down the middle of the room.
• Once there was an imaginary line that mustn’t be crossed.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
• And to be fair, those fears aren’t imaginary.
  — Nick Dothée, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2026
• That city doesn’t have to be imaginary.
  — Tiffany Caban, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
• Three nights of chaos; on the fourth, the imaginary play goes well.
  — Lauren Rothery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• Lugers tilt to an imaginary track.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
• But this is no plea to return to some imaginary good old days.
  — Fran Moreland Johns, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
• All the old trains no longer in use transport me back to an imaginary time.
  — Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 2 July 2018
• Crouser would have to toss the sphere past the imaginary record.
  — oregonlive, 30 July 2021
• With each, Klein claps and lets the echoes ring in imaginary rafters.
  — Chris Berdik, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2020
• The drill sergeant would taunt them with an imaginary finish line.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 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
• Johnson, for the first time, met her imaginary high school boyfriend.
  — oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2020
• Mom screams at Jane for being too old to have imaginary friends.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
• That wall might be imaginary after all.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2026
• Except now, the gold stars are imaginary.
  — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• Children pluck imaginary coins from the air and drop them in a bucket.
  — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2018
• Mr Johnson would not look out of place in any of these imaginary worlds.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Who doesn’t love an imaginary medieval world?
  — EW.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Dozens of golfers putted at imaginary holes and imagined the balls going in.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 4 July 2020
• Now it's woke again for trying to wipe an imaginary farmer from its logo.
  — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Not all the scares and frights and bumps in the night are imaginary on Halloween.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
• The pass crossed the slot line, the imaginary boundary that runs from the net out and splits the zone in half.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 9 May 2026
• At some point these imaginary works pass into the realm of co-creation.
  — Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
• Amounts that would have looked imaginary three years ago are now the entry ticket.
  — Renana Ashkenazi, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• 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
• In this sense, both the past and the future are imaginary, but real, too, as ideas.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• But what are imaginary best friends who live in the sky for if not to give you an unusual pep talk?
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 28 Dec. 2020
• And there are no effects, there are no imaginary monsters.
  — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 17 Jan. 2026
• And there are no effects, there are no imaginary monsters.
  — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026