How to Use imaginary in a Sentence

imaginary

adjective

• The two groups were separated by an imaginary line down the middle of the room.
• 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 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
• 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
• What if their imaginary friends are something from the spirit world?
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
• How to: Stand up straight, with your elbows near your ribcage, holding the imaginary jump rope handles in each hand.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 1 Mar. 2023
• Draw an imaginary line between the pointer stars and extend it about five times the distance between the two stars.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
• Another one of your imaginary boyfriends is off the market, ladies.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 17 June 2023
• The imaginary places Jackson most loved to visit were soap operas.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• Holding an imaginary sword, Theo pivoted and stretched out his arm, a move that frankly lacked force.
  — Gia Kourlas Ok McCausland, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• The brand’s prints are like a kaleidoscope of color and were designed with an imaginary Mediterranean town in mind.
  — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2023
• It's measured in an imaginary box along the equator, roughly south of Hawaii, known as the Nino 3.4 Index.
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Jorge Luis Borges reviewed imaginary books to overcome the enormous weight of the forebears who obsessed him.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Based on a book by Daniel DeLeeuw, imaginary friends turn violent in this quirky horror flick.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Sep. 2022
• The gap between my picky fact-checking and her pages of imaginary dialogue does not seem to me a matter of degree.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Caleb said, holding the backpack in front of his head, backpedaling and ducking away from an imaginary shooter.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• The complex plane is a way of graphing complex numbers, which have two parts: real and imaginary.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
• For Jackson, that means avoiding the frequent knife fights and creating an imaginary life inside his mind to get him through the day.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2022
• Some people went back up for seconds with imaginary food.
  — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 25 July 2022
• Their imaginary storm was modeled on the Great Flood of 1862, which also made a lake of the Central Valley and destroyed, by one account, a quarter of all the buildings in the state.
  — Christopher Cox Spencer Lowell, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• There’s even a 63-page discography listing all the imaginary albums discussed in the book, plus some that aren’t discussed but only exist for the sake of the list.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2023
• Billy, switching to an imaginary canine language, would grab the paws and start dragging Benjamin Franklin down the stairs.
  — Werner Herzog, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• At 8 on opening night, after a year of preparation, the imaginary curtain will lift.
  — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
• When imaginary betrayals pile up, reprisals threaten to harm the entire town.
  — Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024