How to Use imagine in a Sentence

imagine

verb
  • It was worse than they had imagined.
  • I imagine it will snow at some point today.
  • He asked us to imagine a world without poverty or war.
  • It's hard for me to imagine having children.
  • The company will do better next year, I imagine.
  • He was imagining all sorts of terrible things happening.
  • It's difficult to imagine that these changes will really be effective.
  • Hard to imagine, in his younger/tougher years, but that’s what the coach said.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 June 2022
  • Just imagine having to dry-clean the same cape for decades, since the film is set in the present.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The easiest life to imagine was the life of the man who ran the ferry.
    — Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
  • Life there is hard to imagine for those of us who live and move freely.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2022
  • At the time, Brown couldn’t imagine the ripples his hit would cause.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Just imagine if one of the three was not there, how many the two other ones would have.
    — Howard Fendrich, ajc, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Beer can be so much more than what most of us can imagine.
    — Matt Koesters, The Enquirer, 27 May 2022
  • So why do people imagine the Stones had a big hit with it?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 June 2022
  • The year 1994 was a good time to imagine the concept of wealth filtered through the eyes of children.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Is the hunger for these stories the hunger to imagine the unimaginable?
    — Katie Roiphe, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2022
  • But just take a moment to imagine it in your mind’s eye.
    — Vulture, 22 Jan. 2023
  • And remember back to the first John Wick and imagine how that script would’ve read.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
  • But still, what a drag to imagine a world without the Ringo version.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The last year did not go the way either Biden or Morris had imagined.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Just imagine curling up in this chair with a good book.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 20 Nov. 2022
  • So just imagine what that does for my mother, who was born in 1948.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Can't even imagine how stressful it's been for her through all of this.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Friends of the victim said she was widely liked and couldn't imagine who would want to harm her.
    — Jesse Kirsch, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2023
  • As for the words themselves, there’s nothing to imagine.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • Trying to imagine the sad dream that Eleanor Rigby lives in?
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2022
  • No one can imagine the things that this regime has done to Syrians.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Can’t imagine many who lived through the nineties wanting it any other way.
    — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • Try to imagine the standards of Hermès and Apple and bringing those two together.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 29 May 2025

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