How to Use imagine in a Sentence

imagine

verb
  • It was worse than they had imagined.
  • I imagine it will snow at some point today.
  • He asked us to imagine a world without poverty or war.
  • It's hard for me to imagine having children.
  • The company will do better next year, I imagine.
  • He was imagining all sorts of terrible things happening.
  • It's difficult to imagine that these changes will really be effective.
  • Hard to imagine, in his younger/tougher years, but that’s what the coach said.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 June 2022
  • So, imagine that: Iowa vs. Penn State meet again with a lot on the line.
    Chad Leistikow, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2021
  • But imagine if your mom was one of the biggest pop stars in the world.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Just imagine having to dry-clean the same cape for decades, since the film is set in the present.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The easiest life to imagine was the life of the man who ran the ferry.
    Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
  • Life there is hard to imagine for those of us who live and move freely.
    Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2022
  • At the time, Brown couldn’t imagine the ripples his hit would cause.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Just imagine if one of the three was not there, how many the two other ones would have.
    Howard Fendrich, ajc, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Beer can be so much more than what most of us can imagine.
    Matt Koesters, The Enquirer, 27 May 2022
  • So why do people imagine the Stones had a big hit with it?
    Chris Willman, Variety, 1 June 2022
  • The year 1994 was a good time to imagine the concept of wealth filtered through the eyes of children.
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Is the hunger for these stories the hunger to imagine the unimaginable?
    Katie Roiphe, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2022
  • But just take a moment to imagine it in your mind’s eye.
    Vulture, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Now imagine what's possible if the rest of the world joined us.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
  • And remember back to the first John Wick and imagine how that script would’ve read.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
  • But still, what a drag to imagine a world without the Ringo version.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Thus the god of the clan, the totemic principle, can be none other than the clan itself, but the clan transfigured and imagined.
    Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026
  • So imagine all four of us are asleep.
    Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • Fire changed human habitation in ways our ancestors could hardly have imagined.
    Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • The 22-10 Braves couldn’t have imagined a much better start.
    Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 1 May 2026
  • If that reads like a cliché, imagine the coolest guy in school saying it, and meaning it.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • Now, imagine one of those guys poses for Vanity Fair.
    Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
  • Now imagine this striking scene lasting 54 minutes.
    Deana L. Weibel, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026

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