imaginary
Example Sentences
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I mimed the reporter’s self-satisfied tone and fanned myself with an imaginary notebook.
From Literature
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A child gets lost on a hike and meets an imaginary friend.
Haley told her parents that an imaginary friend, a girl named Alecia, had kept her company and guided her to the river.
I took many imaginary beaver and muskrat but I did no more sets and killed no more animals.
From Literature
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"I tell my children imaginary stories. I try to make the stories motivating and uplifting," she said, such as tales of a new home with separate rooms and beds.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.