imagination
Example Sentences
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A display featuring a large skull first captured his imagination.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
And the entrepreneur himself lives on in the popular imagination: His story was dramatized in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1988 film “Tucker: The Man and His Dream,” which was nominated for three Oscars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Its cells held infamous criminals such as Al Capone, and several unsuccessful escape attempts captured public imagination.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
In the popular imagination geishas are often confused with courtesans but their work as trained masters of refined old artforms does not involve selling sex.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Maybe it was Michael’s imagination, but it felt like the air radiated with shared nervousness, like they were both jumpy and scared, even though they were just standing there, watching and waiting.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing imagination
Creative Writing - Middle School
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Creative Writing - Introductory
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