How to Use imaginings in a Sentence

imaginings

plural noun
  • Here was a portal to a realm where teenagers were more glamorous and reckless than my wildest imaginings.
    — Lauren Mechling, Town & Country, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Here are my nominees and my wild imaginings about what AI could do for us.
    — Alexandra Samuel, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The darker imaginings on which his strong contemporary appeal rest were soon to come.
    — Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Our most vivid imaginings occur during the REM phase of sleep.
    — Lindzi Wessel, Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Your wildest imaginings can provide a source of inspiration to others.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2021
  • With that opener, and the account that followed, Baylor came to be one of the great pillars of my early imaginings.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Douglas’s repulsed imaginings drew on at least two distinct senses of privacy.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • The imaginings of acting are temporary; when the show is over, the actor returns to the real world, and knows the difference.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • If the results from the league’s opening slate of games are any indication, the next 10 weeks will be even less predictable than our wildest imaginings.
    — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 27 Sep. 2020
  • And that's the case regardless of whether one's imaginings of the future are over the top and unbelievable or seemingly mundane.
    — Tariro Mzezewa New York Times, Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Awful imaginings are slowly exposed onto the negative plates of his characters’ hearts and minds.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
  • That said, any one person’s imaginings produced in a hypnotic tasting are probably not useful to anyone else.
    — Craig Stoltz, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Maybe it's romanticized, but there's something about Smulders' imaginings for Scherbatsky that doesn't sound half bad.
    — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 19 Sep. 2020
  • In the book Barron plays out the woulda-coulda imaginings about a world where the blockbuster allegations were made public.
    — Ann Marie Lipinski, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The oddest thing about reading many fevered imaginings of the future of the novel was that it had been played out in things like Metal Gear Solid.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2021
  • But the expiration of the copyright could lead to multiple re-imaginings of the story about the falsehoods of the American dream.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 13 July 2020
  • Self, who’s made a major name for herself on the contemporary art stage with her large-scale, loose, bulbous imaginings of the Female figure was off and running.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 20 June 2021
  • Cruella could push Walt Disney’s live-action re-imaginings past $10 billion worldwide.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • In recent weeks, those imaginings of a nomination became a reality.
    — Sinéad Burke, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Both of the new series are backstories, and both are medieval-style fantasies that take full advantage of the love modern folk have for the imaginings of the European past.
    — Jo Livingstone, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022
  • All of it is about a life of sentimentality, a wish for a healthy family, a nod to the turmoil of family, of origin, and the willingness to dig my hands and mind deep into all of those imaginings.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2020
  • During our uncensored nocturnal imaginings, full of loose associations, our minds can wander in new directions.
    — Jennifer King Lindley, Health.com, 2 Dec. 2021
  • In her singular imaginings, mermaids swim up to watch TV news about their planet, ships play tag with giant squid, and humans get up close and personal with a purple narwhal with blue wings.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2022
  • Thanks to the show’s immense production value, Lindon’s grandeur is a sight to behold, as viewers get a glimpse into the beauty of Tolkien’s imaginings of the elves in all their glory.
    — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The initiative features re-imaginings of stamps and reminds people to send letters to one another, especially during this time of isolation ahead of the holidays.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Shakespeare’s theatrical creations were probably a mixture of firsthand experiences with the diverse peoples passing through city and re-imaginings of these people.
    — Ayanna Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The question is, essentially, whether or not our own imaginings of luxury can still consider Black women luxurious as our authentic selves.
    — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Season after season, the runway is populated with Dickens heroines and royals, as well as more outré imaginings, like femme fleurs and mystical creatures.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Twin sisters running around re-creating their imaginings as plays, painting visions of their world in watercolor, and for young Amanda, writing novellas and poems in her notebook.
    — Allure, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The image of a sinister Cuomo plotting in the Hamptons with a loyal aide or two is a compelling tale, one that’s certainly not beyond the imaginings of the outcast governor.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2021

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