How to Use imaginary in a Sentence

imaginary

adjective

• The two groups were separated by an imaginary line down the middle of the room.
• There’s no Bing Bong, the imaginary friend that broke hearts by the hundreds in the first film.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2024
• Crouser would have to toss the sphere past the imaginary record.
  — oregonlive, 30 July 2021
• Draw an imaginary line from where the Sun rose in the east, through Jupiter and Saturn, and to where the Sun will set in the west.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2022
• And that imaginary attachment was strong enough to keep me in the theatre for the rest of my life.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2023
• Outside, a voice actor read from a script of what Siri would say as the men zoomed down the road in the imaginary car.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 3 Mar. 2024
• In this sense, both the past and the future are imaginary, but real, too, as ideas.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• In this imaginary scenario, all of the stars in the universe are not moving at all.
  — Brian Jackson, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
• In the mixed zone after the game, Taurasi passed an imaginary torch to Ionescu.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024
• In the lingo, this imaginary place is known as the Metaverse.
  — James Heskett, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2021
• The drill sergeant would taunt them with an imaginary finish line.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
• The two are wearing witch costumes and pose in front of the imaginary Land of Oz skyline.
  — Gerald Eskenazi, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• The girl would often tell Lê about her own imaginary friend.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
• There are imaginary bases at home and down what would be the first and third baselines in baseball.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2022
• The opera follows a dreamer’s journey to find a rose in an imaginary world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Sometimes the shape of an imaginary place can summon up the real world.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• During the promotion of RRR, the imaginary lines were blurred.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2023
• Try to draw your own districts in this imaginary state.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2022
• Andrade landed her vault and snared the gold medal — and Biles’ imaginary crown.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
• The film came from an imaginary place and became real in the most tragic way.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Jan. 2022
• What if their imaginary friends are something from the spirit world?
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
• This one will be aimed at preschool viewers, starring a new crop of preschool-age imaginary friends.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 18 July 2022
• Apply the water to the area on the ground, extending outward from the stem to a foot beyond the dripline -- the imaginary line on the ground just below the branch tips.
  — oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2022
• Before the masked man gets too close, he’s repelled by an imaginary force.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2024
• The only war that should exist is the one between the bears and the unicorns, war as a joke, a bit fantastic and imaginary.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 13 June 2022
• How to: Stand up straight, with your elbows near your ribcage, holding the imaginary jump rope handles in each hand.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 1 Mar. 2023
• From the first page of the book, Margaret whispers a prayer, as if conjuring an imaginary friend.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 8 July 2024
• That movie, or some imaginary version of it, is still unfurling as a shadow play in the megaplex of my mind.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2021
• The latter dishes out some of the funniest one-liners when the writers poke fun at his extreme loneliness working in isolation and the imaginary friends he’s built to cope.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• Colliers included a simple map and a stylistic cut-away showing an imaginary rail line slicing across northwestern Greenland.
  — Paul Bierman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024