How to Use imago in a Sentence

imago

noun
  • In relation to what one longs for, questions, resists, imagines, or defends.
    Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The number of people who’d have to be removed from power, say, at a petrochemical company to halt operations is, one imagines, multiple orders of magnitude higher.
    Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025
  • And brands like The Tonight Show could, one imagines, simply migrate there, keeping the brand alive regardless of what happens to the network TV time period.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Set to a decibel-busting catalog of Celine Dion favorites, the laugh-a-minute musical imagines if Dion herself was a passenger on the Ship of Dreams.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 3 May 2026
  • The island’s more disheveled beach, Pasture Bay (a hawksbill turtle nesting haven from June until November), is fringed by wayward bushes and wildflowers—a scene, one imagines, not far removed from the one Christopher Columbus sailed into in 1463.
    Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026

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