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 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
• The plan illustrates the sheer size of the changes Ms Warren envisages (see chart 3).
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• The gold storage plan for New York, which envisaged the transfer...
  — Todd Buell, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2017
• To envisage, too, a future that will thrillingly marry the old and new.
  — Claire Messud, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2022
• That could open the way to the sort of hybrid government that Mr Falcón envisages.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• The deal envisages the import of some 600 million cubic meters of gas a year.
  — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
• A month ago, the 31-year-old forward didn't envisage being in London right now.
  — Rob Harris, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• It’s perhaps what was envisaged at one point in Syria but failed.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• That’s not hard to envisage with the president railing against them.
  — Mark Zandi, Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Until this time, they are surrounded by sky And can, as yet, envisage no way out.
  — Colm Tóibín, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• In the past two years, the growth in the deployment of solar panels has been fast enough to align with the rate envisaged in the IEA’s pathway to net zero emissions by 2050.
  — Fatih Birol, Fortune, 11 July 2023
• 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
• The Army envisaged the MBT as a universal tank that was maneuverable, packed a punch, and was well-armored yet light.
  — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2018
• But the works test, in the depths of the incommunicable, the degree of anyone’s courage to envisage the bad in life, the worse, and the almost inconceivably abysmal.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
• 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
• The Carmichael mine in an arid part of Queensland state will be much smaller than originally envisaged.
  — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2018
• Instead of the democratic tsunami many envisaged, a string of wars has followed.
  — Dan Perry, The Seattle Times, 24 Dec. 2017
• Given this background, two versions of the future can be envisaged.
  — Andrew Barron, Smithsonian, 20 Feb. 2018
• 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
• The worlds envisaged by LucasArts in 1995 still seem bleak, drab, grey, and lacking decent architects.
  — Matt Gardner, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Proposals could include seeking closer ties with the bloc than May’s deal envisages, or putting the Brexit deal to a public vote.
  — Jill Lawless, The Seattle Times, 26 Mar. 2019
• In the next stage, envisaged to begin on May 11 for most of Spain, bars will reopen their terraces but will be limited to a third of their capacity.
  — NBC News, 1 May 2020
• First, some of the iciest years of the Cold War, and then, with the ideological confrontation at an end, a time when the United Nations began to play more fully the role envisaged by the founders.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2020
• 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
• But at the time, the Three Lions faithful could not envisage a time without depending on their country’s all-time top goalscorer or that a new dawn was upon them.
  — SI.com, 8 July 2018
• Imports have dwindled to the weakest pace in almost two years as economic growth cools and top industry officials envisage a shift away from fossil fuels.
  — Grant Smith, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
• There is no guarantee, even if Gaza no longer occupied such a prominent place in the global news cycle, that the triangular deal envisaged by the Biden administration could be achieved by a successor.
  — F. Gregory Gause Iii, Foreign Affairs, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024