imaginary
Example Sentences
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Melonie Walcott, an HIV researcher, held an imaginary fishing rod and motioned reeling in a catch.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
“Or there are moments when you find yourself playing even without a ball, juggling an imaginary one just like Maradona used to do.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Dahlia Lithwick: If you put “American politics as usual” in some imaginary halcyon past at 1 and Watergate at 10, where’s this slush fund scandal registering for you?
From Slate • May 26, 2026
The writer bashes imaginary feminists who supposedly tell women that caring about appearance is “some kind of intellectual failure.”
From Salon • May 8, 2026
Then the piano music would start to play, and she’d clap to the beat for us as we would each skip, skip, skip, and leap across the imaginary puddle.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
Vocabulary lists containing imaginary
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Common Core Grade 6, List 4
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Common Core Grade 5, List 4
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