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.
  • No one imagines me in that role.
    — Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
  • That was hard to imagine as a child.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
  • So imagine all four of us are asleep.
    — Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • Mann doesn’t have to imagine any of that.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025
  • And imagine if those teams tied.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • Now, imagine adding half that time to it.
    — Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Can’t imagine what the next team will sell for.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • At the time, few could have imagined the path ahead.
    — Cody J Martinez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • And if that’s true now, imagine five years from now.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 13 May 2026
  • Frankly, that’s hard to imagine.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 24 June 2026
  • No one wants to imagine the day their pet’s life will come to an end.
    — Kelsey Monstrola, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • Now imagine the clock only has one hand.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
  • For a moment, imagine that there are no state lines.
    — Torben Rick, The Conversation, 18 June 2026
  • Wright imagined it as a snow globe, a world within a world.
    — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
  • How to imagine a center that doesn’t fold?
    — Bettina Funcke, Artforum, 7 Jan. 2026
  • So imagine, imagine one, three and a half times that size.
    — Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Try to imagine yourself in their skin.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Now, imagine what that moment would smell like.
    — Allure, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Martin imagines an at-home lounge with a speakeasy vibe.
    — Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 26 Feb. 2026
  • For instance, imagine a chef who has spent decades in the kitchen.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Can’t imagine any trouble will come their way!
    — William Earl, Variety, 19 June 2026
  • Then imagine there were millions of you.
    — David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Brazil should edge it, but a one-goal margin is easy to imagine.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 29 June 2026

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