envisage

Example Sentences

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"I never did envisage even playing for Scotland," he admits.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

"That's the one grain I hope will push the regional actors to come together at some point to make some concessions and chart a way forward. I don't envisage anything else being feasible."

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

The blueprints already envisage a two-story colonnade linking the main White House mansion to the 1,000-seat ballroom, where Trump plans to host foreign dignitaries and major events.

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

In an essay on Marianne Moore’s “England,” for example, Vendler writes that “Moore dared to envisage an audience as extravagantly informed as herself.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Indeed, it used to be thought that Brunelleschi had produced his demonstration images around 1425 simply because scholars wanted to envisage these images as immediately provoking new art and new theories.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton