How to Use imaginings in a Sentence

imaginings

plural noun
  • Our most vivid imaginings occur during the REM phase of sleep.
    Lindzi Wessel, Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Here are my nominees and my wild imaginings about what AI could do for us.
    Alexandra Samuel, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • The gonzo, anything-can-happen re-imaginings have their fun.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The darker imaginings on which his strong contemporary appeal rest were soon to come.
    Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 2 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • For much of the rest of the film, except for occasional cutaways to young Stan’s imaginings, the adult Stan (voiced by Jack Black) narrates what really happened.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Your wildest imaginings can provide a source of inspiration to others.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Poor ghost, dependent on a restless crowd’s imaginings.
    Mairead Small Staid, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • Alma succeeds beyond Trixie’s imaginings, rising up in bed all damp and breathy during E.B.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 18 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
  • Awful imaginings are slowly exposed onto the negative plates of his characters’ hearts and minds.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Cruella could push Walt Disney’s live-action re-imaginings past $10 billion worldwide.
    Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • 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
  • Grandage and company solve the problem via an increasing sense of understanding, taking us beyond the incidents to go inside the minds of the characters and into Woolf’s hopes and imaginings.
    David Benedict, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Douglas’s repulsed imaginings drew on at least two distinct senses of privacy.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 20 June 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
  • 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

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