How to Use envisage in a Sentence

envisage

verb
  • I'm trying to envisage you on a surfboard.
  • I envisage a day when proper health care will be available to everyone.
  • The master plan envisages the area as a car-free city.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2025
  • To envisage, too, a future that will thrillingly marry the old and new.
    — Claire Messud, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The war turned out to be more terrible than even Lenin envisaged, but he was proved right in the end.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
  • That’s not hard to envisage with the president railing against them.
    — Mark Zandi, Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • This is not what anyone envisaged when the season began.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Until this time, they are surrounded by sky And can, as yet, envisage no way out.
    — Colm Tóibín, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Given this background, two versions of the future can be envisaged.
    — Andrew Barron, Smithsonian, 20 Feb. 2018
  • However, Bryant has tried to envisage a process of core accretion by halves.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 June 2025
  • Davis envisages dressing both mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, with his clean lines and spare, direct point of view.
    — Colleen Barry, ajc, 25 Feb. 2023
  • It also is not envisaged by Iran’s first opponent.
    — Graham Dunbar, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of the democratic tsunami many envisaged, a string of wars has followed.
    — Dan Perry, The Seattle Times, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Garvey envisaged a new nation built by the descendants of African slaves.
    — George Michael, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The deal envisages the import of some 600 million cubic meters of gas a year.
    — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • That could open the way to the sort of hybrid government that Mr Falcón envisages.
    — The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • The plan illustrates the sheer size of the changes Ms Warren envisages (see chart 3).
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • One problem is that the kind of breakup envisaged by the company doesn’t seem to be the kind most beneficial to investors.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • If this wasn’t the summer as Newcastle envisaged it, the same can be said for Slovenia’s finest.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 29 July 2025
  • It should be recalled that such a development is not envisaged by the plans of the Kremlin and its puppets.
    — Maya Mehrara, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
  • For the remainder of the week, the students assembled in design teams and envisaged their own structures for the park.
    — New York Times, 29 July 2019
  • Talkin The Hardest played in the background was something nobody could have envisaged.
    — Art De Roché, New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • These are not the business or emergency needs envisaged by many in the investment world as a use for digital credit.
    — Victor Odundo Owuor, Quartz Africa, 5 Oct. 2019
  • It is known that the hippocampus and place cells have a role in the ability to envisage circumstances, which is linked to anxiety.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The Carmichael mine in an arid part of Queensland state will be much smaller than originally envisaged.
    — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Others raised questions about whether the group could effectively train the number of workers envisaged.
    — Isaac Arnsdorf, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • Winning all their matches is not their ultimate goal for their under-19s, but losing all six games was not envisaged either.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The budget is due by October 1st and envisages cuts of Eur 30bn.
    — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The company envisaged that people would ask the AI which flowers to choose for any occasion.
    — Al Kingsley Mbe, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • This envisages an increase in the number of the state’s electoral constituencies on keeping with the growth in the population.
    — Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 4 Aug. 2019

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