How to Use envision in a Sentence

envision

verb
  • She envisioned a better life for herself.
  • The inventor envisioned many uses for his creation.
  • The couple envisioned building a house in the back and renting out the front.
    Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • So, milet, your voice was being envisioned for the song from the very start.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 4 June 2023
  • All that would have been hard to envision five years ago.
    Tim Reynolds, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The law envisions a total ban on the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars by 2035.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Some experts envision Ward and Sanders as the top two picks.
    Chad Graff, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The property was once envisioned as the site of a high school but now sits vacant.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Wall Street traders now envision just a single rate cut this year to the Fed's benchmark rate.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 1 May 2024
  • It’s a country that Chance, who has lived in Chicago his whole life, can envision a life in.
    Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The duo envisioned building a treehouse between an oak and a strangler fig tree in the front yard.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Blue Origin envisions six to eight New Glenn flights this year, with the next one coming up this spring.
    Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • When placed together, the cards tell a tale, so envision the story based on the imagery.
    Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 25 May 2024
  • The new age of the 21st century has, however, not been the utopia envisioned at the fin de siècle.
    Ben Ansell, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
  • At least not at the levels this group envisioned at the season’s outset.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2024
  • This is one of the functions of art, after all: to help us envision what would normally be lost to us.
    Malcolm Gladwell, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Then again, the office isn’t always as great as Gen Z might envision.
    Chris Ajuoga, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The 33-year-old had envisioned this day for months, so nerves hindered her from breaking the record on her first few attempts.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • What a limited way to envision the world, even one in crisis.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Two years ago, no one would’ve envisioned Saint Thomas as the focal point of a college offense.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The specifics are hard to envision but, in ten years, are likely to seem obvious in hindsight.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 6 Feb. 2023
  • This is not what the mining company at the center of this fight envisioned.
    Evan Halper, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The audience was shocked – which is just what Gaga envisioned.
    Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Jennie Urman envisioned was something that has the name ‘Matlock,’ but the reason for the name of the show has a twist behind it.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2024
  • But the Falcons probably didn’t envision the rest of the division coming along for the ride.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Many of us have dreamed of our wedding day and envision a wonderful life with our life partners.
    Bianca Lambert, Essence, 26 Dec. 2022
  • These modest benchmarks are not at all what Scherzer or the Mets envisioned in this, the season of the $350 million payroll.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
  • To be good at it, contrarians think ahead and, like Elon Musk, envision a world that others can’t yet see.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
  • She’s even envisioned what her rehearsal and reception looks are going to be.
    Michelle Lee, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
  • For instance, start with produce, then envision the supermarket aisle-by-aisle (adding items where they can be found), and finish in the frozen department.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Feb. 2025

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