Examples of how to use the word “imagine” in a sentence. How to connect “imagine” with other words to make correct English sentences.
imagine (v): to form or have a mental picture or idea of something
Use “imagine” in a sentence
I never imagined we’d end up like this. |
I can’t imagine that it’s true. |
You can’t imagine how tired I am. |
I never imagined we’d end up like this. |
I can’t imagine living like that.
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Synonym: assume, conceive, dream, envision, fancy, gather, guess, presume, suppose. Similar words: imaginary, imagination, unimaginable, imaginatively, drag in, raging, image, managing. Meaning: [ɪ’mædʒɪn] v. 1. form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case 2. expect, believe, or suppose.
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1. If a friend tells a fault, imagine always that he has not told the whole.
2. I can hardly imagine such a scene.
3. ‘He was furious.’ ‘I can imagine.’
4. He could not imagine a more peaceful scene.
5. I can just imagine him saying that!
6. It’s difficult to imagine anything coming between them.
7. Imagine a house with a big garden.
8. Imagine that you have just won a million pounds.
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9. I could clearly imagine the scene in the office.
10. I can’t imagine life without the children now.
11. I can’t imagine what has happened.
12. I can imagine the scene clearly in my mind.
13. Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
14. Close your eyes and imagine you are in a forest.
15. Imagine you’ve been shipwrecked.
16. Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
17. I like the house but I don’t imagine I’ll live there forever.
18. Imagine a scenario where only 20% of people have a job.
19. I can imagine no greater miscarriage of justice than the execution of an innocent man.
20. Can you imagine how much he paid for that car?
21. Imagine Robert Redford when he was young — that’s what John looks like.
22. We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.
23. Can you imagine what it must be like to lose your job after 20 years?
24. Can you imagine that Jack has set up a company of his own?
25. To have a darling baby boy was the greatest gift I could imagine.
26. This is positively the worst thing that I can even imagine.
27. They were as far removed from the ethos of terrorism as you could imagine.
28. The region was extremely beautiful. Nonetheless Gerard could not imagine spending the rest of his life there.
29. Marriage changes you as a person in ways that you can’t imagine.
30. The writer gets no immediate feedback and simply has to imagine the reader’s reaction.
More similar words: imaginary, imagination, unimaginable, imaginatively, drag in, raging, image, managing, magistrate, imagery, encouraging, disparaging, pilgrimage, engine, magazine, engineer, stinginess, magazine rack, engineering, inestimable, agile, tragic, fragile, agility, agitate, agitated, contagion, fragility, agitation, homage.
Used with adverbs:
«I could clearly imagine being on the beach.«
(clearly, easily, almost)
«I could hardly imagine living in a different place.«
(hardly, barely)
«I always imagined him becoming a doctor.«
(always)
«I can’t actually imagine having children.«
(actually, really, seriously)
«She was simply imagining things.«
(simply, only, just)
Used with verbs:
«They tried to imagine what she went through.«
(tried to, could, couldn’t)
«I began to imagine what life would be like without him.«
(began, started)
«I can imagine what she was thinking.«
(can, cannot)
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I imagine it has to do with a case you’re working on?
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He could imagine her turning to dry powder in his arms, stabbing himself on the splinters of her bones as her shrill cackle faded into the cold distance of outer space
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Could you imagine what
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Could you imagine if
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We are just getting started, we’re just warming up, but I can imagine that you are probably seeing your life in a way that you have never seen it
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Ennil tried to imagine it
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I’d imagine there’s quite a layer of dust on it by now, that was thirty decades ago
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It was still hard to imagine that this had all been purchased with eleven retaining balls from hospital cart latch-pins
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I can’t imagine what the Inspector will have to ask me
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She could only imagine its scale
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This achievement enables one to experience bliss that one can never imagine
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Imagine the shock to the family when he announced his intention to marry a catholic hotel maid! This love dynamic in his life was the catalyst for his search for religious truth
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Just imagine that one thought has
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can’t even begin to imagine is that
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She could scarcely imagine the Angels of Talstan taking on the only remaining mortal superpower
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‘Definitely, even if he offered me the job, which I don’t for a minute imagine he is going to do!’ I said, chuckling at the memory of his face when I walked out of his office
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They meant well, he knew that, but how could they imagine that he could
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Her arms were twisted painfully over her head in a submission hold she couldn’t imagine and didn’t want to
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Nevertheless, who knows what really awaits us after death, to the Other Side? Imagine some sort of aliens waiting there, ready to be fed with strong souls!” Alexander said at a moment, in a rather equivocal manner
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It was difficult to imagine walls in this darkness
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Can you imagine a
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’ I said, looking at the expanse of modern building below me, trying to pick out the older buildings and imagine how it must have looked when Rose came here
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Not sure if I imagine her relief or not, but I’m pretty sure about how I feel about it – the thought of spending Christmas with Amy and the family is not one I can contemplate with anything remotely approaching joy
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He tried to imagine her wired up on the breaching ship’s bridge and what it feels like to have a 375m-wide ass
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This new life was going to be far more complicated than I could possibly imagine
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» I imagine her pulling a crop of hair from inside the book
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Anyway, there is no proof about that, besides I can’t imagine she could be so mean
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After he’s gone, I stand looking at the closed door … I didn’t imagine this, did I? He was actually here … wasn’t he?
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One of my favourite games over the months through to the coming of early spring birdsong was to recount those alternative life stories and to imagine myself in the place of either Aban or Menachem
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We often wondered whether the other hostages felt the same, but we could never quite imagine Aban and Beniamin finding the same closeness
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But that was only because of the native virus, he could still imagine the tortures he would have inflicted on them to get it out of them if it wasn’t for that artificial Instinct
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He wished he could imagine what it was like for Angels a century and three quarters beyond the one’s who’s sister he once loved
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Can you imagine an entire nation of Pauls going to and fro throughout the earth to proclaim the freedom that they have now experienced in Christ? It will be during the Millennial Kingdom that Israel will fulfill her ultimate purposes of being the priestly nation to the nations (Exodus 19:6)
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If you can imagine it, you can have it -‐ especially once you
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They meant well, he knew that, but how could they imagine that he could do all of these normal things without her
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Earth’s civilization would never imagine that the most humans live in the deepest concentrations of jungle
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‘Can you imagine it? Me living in a manor house with staff!’ he chuckled, stooping to pick up another stone and throwing it with some power towards the same rock where it smashed
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Imagine you are in a river with the boat over your head
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They have a gas lantern also, I imagine she’s got that going
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I gather that once, when he was a young man (very young I should imagine), he met her grandmother and was immediately struck by the resemblance Angie bears her … sounds unlikely to me, but who am I to quibble?
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I imagine it must have come as a shock to you coming so close to Joris’s death
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” Can you imagine the humility it would take for a nation to come under that? Can you really imagine a nation that would acknowledge their boundaries being established by the hand of God according to the sons of Israel?
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Just imagine, though
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Just imagine the early videos that went viral; animals doing crazy things, babies dancing and other content that had never been shared in this past
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Can you imagine the Islamic and Moslem extremist nations that desire the death of Israel seeing this take place? Can you imagine what will happen when those nations hear the Jewish people admitting their failure before God – and that their judgment was due to their sin – and in love embracing their enemies and blessing them that cursed them?
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“Nothing wrong there in Jodechi, but here, I can’t imagine you
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Though I imagine here, beyond the glass,
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It was claimed to be more massive than people could imagine
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She could imagine his hands on her doing what he did in the dreams… damn it! I’ve got to stop doing this… it’s those damn dreams! She could hear a deep chuckle filling her mind, all right Jake, I get the point!
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Can you imagine that?’
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It is bad enough when it rains here, I can’t imagine trying to get around the sort of terrain you describe in the downpours mentioned in your last letter
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I have read your last letter over and over, trying to imagine what the landscape is like where you are
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You can imagine the result
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‘I should imagine that there are many things that you want to know, Lintze
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’ I said almost defiantly … sure is one thing I am not at the moment, but I can imagine that I shall be climbing the walls out of sheer boredom by then
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I can’t imagine Wiesse putting up with anything less than the best
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Imagine you have come to a stage in your life where you do not feel a need to offer anyone explanations about yourself
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Imagine that you don’t have to impress anyone
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As before, I am impressed by the skill of our distant ancestors … I can’t imagine the work and organisation that must have gone into building this place
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Something far greater that anything they could imagine; and it involved riding the dragons of their dreams
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in the same flow, imagine how we could erode the rocks
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From the gossip columns there’d been veiled rumours of his associations with certain criminal elements, but then I’d imagine after-show parties and nightclubs must have been brimming with suspicious characters in those days
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Can you imagine the shock treatment all this activity has on the digestive and nervous systems? And because of this fast dying down the body is aware of a hunger for more and more sugar
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«I can imagine,» Alan said, «It would cause wars on Earth
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She couldn’t even imagine what this journey must have been like for him, all the way from YingolNeerie and then all the way from Wescarp across a world he knew nothing about, as little as she knew about the world at YingolNeerie
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’ He said trying to imagine the concept
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You can imagine his surprise when the old woman produced a long length of coiled rope from under her voluminous purple overcoat
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«I imagine you want some loving
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They talked about what the menu would have in the best restaurant he could imagine on his planet
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He allowed himself to imagine one of those elaborate shorting-out scenes like in ancient movies where the robot becomes encased in blue plasma with arcs of lighting all around them until their parts clatter to the floor, smoking
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But, if she’s going to accuse me of being ‘the other woman’ surely she wouldn’t choose to do it over lunch? I try to imagine the scenario and fail miserably
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I’ve known her for several years, and she’s a straightforward, non-hysterical woman; some people would say that she was cold and unemotional but that may just be in comparison with the temperamental musician she’s married to – after all someone would have to be the down-to-earth sane one in that partnership! Try as I do, I cannot imagine her screaming at me or making a scene … a consoling thought to some extent, but it still doesn’t explain why she wants to see me
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Imagine you walked over to
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Imagine being a part of a conversation where the
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imagine that Ali sees the ball in slow motion A normal player will use the second
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‘We felt the tremors hundreds of kilometres away, imagine the situation in
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Imagine the lives lost if the mall was open?’
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Here‘s an example: Imagine that you recently applied for a
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imagine – no matter how outlandish it may be
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imagine that a cord of brilliant white light travels from the
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He grew the most beautiful romantic roses you could ever imagine
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My Lord, she is more of a threat to them than you can possibly imagine
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‘Yes, imagine the saving
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I’d imagine at least ten thousand a head, or forty
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never imagine that both the ground and the monkey
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“The only part of that I can answer was the ‘how’ they can do that, who and why I can’t imagine
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Even though he couldn’t take it seriously, he tried to imagine what it would be like to be in the heaven his mother’s letter hinted at
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more profound and sacred than we imagine
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Then they all started honking their horns, apparently just for the fun of it … you should have seen the grin on Emanuele’s face as he joined in the cacophony! Getting out of Naples was slow work, it is a busy city and the road system appears to have been built piecemeal, so you may imagine how it was
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» He stood up to get himself from between those melons, he couldn’t think rationally while he was there, and after listening to Heymon he worried that there might be a chance it was Ava driving this cherub, though he could scarcely imagine Ava being this aggressive with her body
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» Kelvin could imagine it felt good to have someone else carry some of the weight that rested on his forearms, her clothing wasn’t helping
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you have a goal that you want to achieve, imagine how
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He could imagine
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I can imagine growing old with this man
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She looked at the mossy and eroding concrete and could scarcely imagine so ancient a time
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She tried to imagine what kind of bug it would be in the rendering that would cause that
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I can only imagine what they must be like in their own Hold
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‘Wicked to laugh at them … it’s funny, Jo … I’ve known Gary for years but can’t imagine what it would be like … you know, seeing him letting his hair down
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Maybe I’m fastidious, but I couldn’t imagine wanting to watch someone else at it
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She could imagine Bishop Rendellyn wanting to do this to her, but she knew he would have tried to encapsulate her via prayer, and had to have acolytes actually maintain the user settings for his universe
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Toby imagined Michael Jordan doing a lay over up to the top shelves
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This was still more different than anything any of them could have ever imagined
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When she was there, at the closest star in whatever constellation it’s in, she certainly never imagined she would be here, now, wondering what happened there
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When she was there she certainly never imagined she would even exist now
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Johnny imagined that his dad would be crushed, and it was a moment that Johnny wanted to do his best to spare him from ever having to go through
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He wrapped himself around her shoulders and imagined the warmth of his mate, the way they gripped each other in the warm sky
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This was not her idea of a fun way to spend the dusk, especially when she imagined the fine cups that would be going around at Kulai’s duskmeal while they discussed the upcoming evening’s entertainment
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was imagined; Do not stoop to
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demons as companions because Smith had never imagined imagination
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that reinforced the heavens as imagined by a responsible God
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imagined it would be
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I imagined the space around me to be infinite, falling away from the edges of reality like the seas that tumble over the edge of a flat earth
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More polar opposites can scarcely be imagined than the mortal privation and terror of Talstan and the fleshpits of Satan’s world
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I imagined him blowing smoke into my covered face
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I imagined him sat at a table, softly lit, with a family, bowls of steaming meat and vegetables between them
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We were a happy band, an imagined brotherhood
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I shuffled backwards on my arse, scrabbling to put distance between myself and the door, which slammed open just as I had imagined it would
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Could my distorted mind be playing tricks on me? Was the ultimate nature of my lunacy to take shape in a world of imagined friends, of odd and sundry voices rattling off the walls of my empty head?
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To watch your soul-brother take a beating for some off-hand remark or imagined slight, is to have your heart cut, slice by slice, into ribbons
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We existed in a world of words and imagined intellectual propositions, spending hours talking through the possibilities for the citizens of this benighted planet
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But since it’s just an RNAcid trip and not something you imagined yourself, I’m going to try real hard to not let it gross me out to the point where I won’t want the one of you YingolNeerians that does have flesh
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Smith was unable to fashion physical angels and demons as companions because Smith had never imagined imagination
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Smith preferred to consider a thought from a familiar set of view points, rolling it across the heavens like thunder, looking at all those aspects of silence and darkness that reinforced the heavens as imagined by a responsible God
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This was going to be harder than he had imagined it would be
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Danton imagined the breaking of this man’s fragile skeleton with every bounce
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I had a wonderful time and being in those mountains is even more beautiful than I imagined from the valley
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Her gonads curled painfully within her as she imagined the deviant rites these people must practice
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He had probably just imagined hearing her
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than the fingers imagined in scales of familiarity and use,
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I had imagined that Nepal would be just snow-capped mountains – but that says more about my lack of geographical knowledge than anything, I feel! Your description of the fauna and flora found in the tropical savanna and the forests was most interesting and the watercolours you enclosed are extremely good
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He said that I was in shock because of what I had been thru; that I had imagined all of it
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for simple things well intentioned but childishly imagined
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She imagined it must be much worse for Luray
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more fiend than I could have imagined
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Daniel could not have imagined the emotions that engulfed him
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I had travelled — actually flown all the way — and alone — into a balmy welcome I could never have imagined
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What he saw can only be imagined
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I could not have imagined it
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he wants to be imagined
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I imagined the life there, far from towns, with the faintest strain of music floating in the air and the echo of modest family voices
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and you are, for that precise imagined moment,
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It reminded me of infant school formalities, and that memory took me home for a second and I imagined my aunt arriving at our cottage and how it would be empty
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We set off without a clue as to what we’d find in Faria but it was much more serious than we could’ve imagined
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It was worse than I’d imagined — tourism as a front for fencing loot
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“We could not, however, have imagined how this would affect them,” continued Tarak
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Their love was born of hope and that hope always took the form of imagined blue lines and smiling doctors, but their loving was in vain
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thousands now, but imagined that transacting in lakhs and crores wouldn’t be
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Immediately after the disposal of Alan’s body Helen Roach found that coping with her daughter’s stress and grief was far harder than she had ever imagined it would be
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What if Alfred had been right and they should have stayed and studied the planet at 61 Cygni until the next expedition arrived? True it wasn’t the wonder Alan had imagined, but it was still the only place outside Earth where macroscopic biology had been discovered
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She spun around and seized K’nada, unsheathed his blade and leaped through the air slicing thru imagined enemies swinging the blade with lightening speed
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than we ever could possibly have imagined
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As they left Naria watched them go from the top of the parapet and thought to herself that things were working out better than she could have imagined
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I think she said science though I might have imagined that bit, to me she had science student written all over her
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He should be, she imagined there was a lot of competition for this job
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It’s done very well too … though I have always imagined Lucy to be shorter than the actress playing the part in the film
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on to the real or imagined hurts you have suffered,
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of hope and that hope always took the form of imagined blue lines
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She said nothing but she moved more swiftly than I imagined she could or would
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she had ever imagined it would be
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undergrowth one winter some years ago, Tom imagined, and had not
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and Tom initially imagined that looking after three children might
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This was going better than he could have imagined
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Jorma felt stupid, he had imagined some drug that would extract his mind or knock him out til he came to in a stew pot
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Jorma’s testicles crawled up his legs when he imagined being locked in some chamber somewhere beyond one of those openings
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Guardians and which, Tom imagined, had been carefully designed to
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‘Chrissie!’ Billy said, his surprise every bit as satisfying as Chrissie had imagined it would be
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During the long, pillow tossing watches of the night, between imagined conversations during which Andy persuaded the Sergeant by sheer dint of his charismatic personality that there had been nothing going on, the unwelcome thought had occurred to Andy that the Sergeant was being exceptionally curious about what Andy had been doing since he left Tracey
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Tom imagined that
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” She imagined having the time to get him to understand what that was like, but he continued, “What I remember thinking about you is how remarkably normal you seem for someone from that far away and different a culture
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Tom imagined that the concerted campaign of
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In his childish way, he had imagined
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His mother was dressed as he had always imagined her – a floral
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She imagined them as Internal Investigations operatives and lead them on a merry chase
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seems to have more in common with a baseball field than I ever imagined
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He imagined something like a hologram recording the soul, but the ghost insisted she experienced that half century and spent a lot of time doing research in her field, learning more about it as a ghost than she could have as flesh
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He imagined remembering their love affair from Tdeshi’s side, for such is the power of the Kassikan’s pills, but Kulai assured him her mind was big and powerful but already empty
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They went on for several minutes in that imagined
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as he had once imagined
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imagined himself swinging and kicking but the poison in his blood had different
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He imagined it must be what kind of stitch switch because they often pointed to foci of the patterns
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He had probably never imagined that such a problem could exist
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He could have never imagined doing such a thing just half a bottle ago
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Easing back into the overstuffed chair in front of the fireplace; placed exactly where she’d imagined it that first night, she thought of how it could be her second chance at life as well
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I always imagined the busy
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The thoroughbred gladiators I’d imagined
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he imagined but something was amiss
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It was someone he’d never imagined seeing on his
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It was a limp grip, just as I imagined
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a wince of pain as I imagined, but a sigh of relief, that of a heroin addict finally
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Being far from your boyfriend is really a little hard, because I always imagined that thought about him what he’s doing and how he spends his leisure time
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always imagined she was bound for a convent
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He imagined truer words were never spoken
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stopped hunting him, they would always haunt his dreams she imagined
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Heather imagined she could watch him
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» He put his arms around her and thus began a Nightday better than he could have ever imagined when he was with that expedition, one that made them glad they stayed home together, and one that took her mind completely off her search for a teaching position
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imagined his soul was doing the same thing right about now
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He imagined the containers falling overboard
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I imagined it would be very different than
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I began to imagine (because I have a sanctified imagination), I imagined a day when the world would come to the prophets to find missing children, wanted criminals, and even hidden terrorist cells
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Their meeting was not how he imagined it to be, and he imagined it often and in many ways
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Evan imagines her as the head cheerleader and valedictorian of her high school
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Moments when his eyes glaze as he imagines the nearly, the what ifs
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She imagines herself in the arms of a man,
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he imagines the world inverted
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Davie hears the buzzard’s high pitched squeal of annoyance and imagines the bodies in the pit, in their death throes, pleading for light
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She imagines the tip of the needle breaking skin, sliding into muscle, the bulge where the liquid pools as she presses on the plunger, and the spasms, a face, a rictus grin
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He imagines that Bex is six years old, and that she is holding his free hand
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But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject
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This, he imagines, upon the true principles of the mercantile system, is a clear proof that this forced corn trade is
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Despite Sisyphus’s tragic existence, Camus imagines he is happy, though he does not fully explain why
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Nobody imagines, I beileve, that even the greater part of the annual coinage, amounting, for ten years together, before the late reformation of the gold coin, to upwards of £800,000 a-year in gold, was an annual addition to the money before current in the kingdom
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My daughter imagines he drives around in her Barbie Bus, while my son envisions him logging on to Wikipedia or reading the newspaper
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Although our primal emotions may originally have been intended to operate at the level of instinctive reactions, they can also influence procedures at other levels…Minsky imagines that each of his six levels of mental procedures is populated by special resources called ‘critics’ which recognize various kinds of situations
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2 who imagines mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war
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16 An enemy speaks sweetly with his lips, but in his heart he imagines how to throw you into a pit, he will weep with his eyes, but if
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He will not concede that his new belief is not based on facts, cold reason, historical necessity, or reality as he imagines it to be
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Then let them delete also the words that he or she imagines might offend someone else
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One imagines that one is
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himself, he imagines an answer from without
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But man imagines that he works for an incen-
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commotion is meaningless, for I am not the entity that imagines
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Its destiny is the duty of him who imagines himself to be
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what one imagines it was
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His fists are clenched tight in the bath as he imagines he is
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But, as Sherwood Anderson wrote in “Discovery of a Father,” a son’s wish for what he imagines to be a perfect father does not always come true: “One of the strangest relationships in the world is that between father and son
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When Ralph enters, pushing aside the torn curtain that hangs down in what he imagines is a vain attempt to keep out the wind, he expects the room to be empty
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He imagines crimson and black, colours to induce terror
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Hartstongue simply nods, as if he imagines it could be him she was addressing, and gazes beyond her to the land around them
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As the wolf snarls once more, baring its teeth and crouching for the kill, he imagines he will die here
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He never once imagines that such discovery might be not by an enemy but by a friend
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But if he is puffed up by the respect thus shown to him and imagines himself to belong to a high class, he directly ceases to be a Brahmin (because this reflects his arrogance and ignorance)
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He often imagines firing rockets from his torso or shooting bullets or small gas bombs from his arms and watching through infrared eyes as his enemies are torn to bloody shreds
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Everywhere he looks he sees The Lord Yhwh (what he imagines to be the name of that which cannot be named—your name)
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As Below so Above and Beyond, he imagines
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Wisely, for one so young and inexperienced, he sensed that a relationship in which one partner imagines he is more desirable, or has more to offer than the other, is doomed to failure
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3 The story of Ruth as the author imagines it might have been told to the youth David by
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Simon imagines in his mind unscrewing and unbolting the door as the postman arrives for his parcel
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Suzy stares deeply into Lewis’s eyes as she imagines her life living with someone disabled
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“Dying is much more difficult than one imagines
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With vigor, he imagines the point whereby he flips into real fear and at that very point, we ask him to STOP!
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“Garcia’s brain and implant function as one unit and the images he imagines could be transferred to a media storage device in use by the Iotians
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The only way is to wake up and realise that Reality is not the problem; it is you who imagines it is a problem
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The “bliss” which my limited “I” imagines is the real Bliss
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” Just to be on the safe side he concentrates his magic towards the undergrowth and imagines the molecules there swirling and dancing together
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He sees the magic between the water and himself and he pulls on it, tugs at it, imagines the magic stilling the water, calming it, deep at the molecular level — so the water’s spinning hydrogen atoms lock together and crystals form on the ground and in the sky
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believes that the world is as he imagines it
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Colorful images that a child imagines
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“…with conceit…”: means that one imagines that one acquires greater good by an action than what is already in one’s possession, when in fact the opposite is true
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Rico has become the kind of young man Cass imagines his son would become
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And she slips the tip of his finger seamlessly into her mouth and sucks, and for a moment he imagines that it’s not her lips squeezing him, that it’s not his finger she’s circling with her tongue
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He imagines that he can see her tower in the dark
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«Well, please be kind enough to be present when I attach the irons to the prisoner in case in his madness he imagines that I am that young lad,» Olin requested with a dry mouth
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I know exactly what just went through his mind – for a moment there, he experienced what he imagines I must have been felt
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Maybe he has a crummy old car, and maybe he’s really ugly and scrawny, but when he’s dreaming he’s this big, strong man with a really expensive car, because that’s how he imagines things should be for him
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As her mind begins to slip into the dark places—where, she imagines, not even the monsters can be seen—Mary begins to realize something
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She knows this in her heart in a way she imagines all little girls know that they are loved by their mothers, their fathers, their Mama Grandmas, and for that she is confident in the fact that nothing will stir her emotions unless she finds something that is more confident than the thing that fell from the olive branch
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She imagines there are much greater things in this world than the one with many colors
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The ring, though small compared to the field, extends a fair distance away from where she stands—where, she imagines, a small car could park if one so truly desired
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Were she to do that, she imagines she would become small—much, much too small—and would eventually be reduced to tears
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She imagines her brain cracking a hole in her head and sliding out until it is nothing more than sludge before her, a clump of pudding of the mortal variety
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In looking at the creature, and upon the sad spectacle before her, she imagines this is likely what the moth feels as the pearlescent beauty continues to feed upon it—liquefying, as Mary understands from school, its interior organs, then pumping them back into its body
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Had it a will, she imagines, and a purpose capable of action, it would have flown out of her chest and toward the place that it would likely call home
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It could only, she imagines, harbor ill intentions
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If her mind has its own way, she imagines they are nothing like little girls—that beneath it all, the skin and clothes and hair and eyes, they are really ugly creatures who look like blobs of jelly that eat everything in their path
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The man’s high-heeled boots come down on the ground with a crunch that Mary imagines will be her bones should he come anywhere near her
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It is with grief and sadness, of youth and inexperience that Mary begins to walk forward—toward, what she imagines, is the great nothing before her
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Because of this, Mary imagines that, were this world normal, and were she several hundreds of thousands of years back in time, there would have been men here—wielding, of course, clubs and canes—and they would have tried to start fires
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The stone, even from a distance, is distinguishably scarred—broken by axes, Mary imagines, when the rest of the world fell—and while it isn’t necessarily an ugly feature, it does make the sight before it appear frail: tired, she could say, and ready to collapse
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She has never felt so weak in her life and, she imagines, never will again, as it is with this advance that she knows that she will never leave home once she returns to the real world, never step foot outside, never leave the confines of her room or her bed or even the blankets that are spread atop it
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I’m not sure what she imagines I’m going to say, but she has a tendency to expect the worst
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— Firstly, dear Kseillirgmiya’, everything around those who sit here, near this bonfire at Ayfaar, looks completely in a different way than each of us imagines it, because every one considers “personally” oneself (but not UU-VVU-copies used by one’s Formo-Creators) the main character in this inertial Process, although everything is just to the contrary — UU-VVU-copies exist in their “niches” as if “by themselves”, and we only use their typical qualitative characteristics to integrate them through active Levels of our own Self-Consciousness and be able to synthesize and realize, in the Formo-system of Worlds, a subjective Experience of Our universal relative inertial Existence in this range of Energy-Plasma
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he imagines that he could build some sort of walls to protect the trees, so that no one could
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In addition, we endow such characters with our own psychisms, because when the child imagines that it communicates with a dwarf, it can picture only the dwarf it wishes to see, — with the same character traits, which the child wants to have
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For an aboriginal who imagines his future dwelling, this will not be flaks VVU-Information, but dolls one which has been rezonationally attracted by karmo-klofts of “mixing Fields” to the resopasons of 2
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“We have followed him and listened to him, all the while knowing his weakness, his weakness of jealousy! How can we trust a Captain who does not have control of his emotions, whose rage is a rage over nothing? Whatever he imagines in his mind takes over and instead of keeping his ship and crew safe
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The myth-tale of a spirit is told: the person imagines it, carves the amulet or icon, the child is raised with the icon that they can see-touch, which goes to create their own impression-experience of outer normality, which they then transform into their own version of inner reality
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One never imagines such pitfalls are as much for oneself as for everyone else
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Evans imagines the possibility of his empire stretching across the land he has already conquered
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She imagines a group of people in a laboratory, tweaking an SIM card
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He imagines her holding
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Tennyson imagines with regard to an ‘Evangelist;’ but there is everything in this narrative to suggest, if it be but true, all that follows in succeeding revelations as to the abnormal cause of man’s mortality
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Sammy is also aware that it depends on what he visually imagines
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At this point one of the two that looked like kings exclaimed, «Enough, enough, divine singer! It would be an endless task to put before us now the death and the charms of the peerless Altisidora, not dead as the ignorant world imagines, but living in the voice of fame and in the penance which Sancho Panza, here present, has to undergo to restore her to the long-lost light
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And having once assimilated the state to the individual, he imagines that he will find the succession of states paralleled in the lives of individuals
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«Is that Catherine Linton! He imagines me in a pet—in play, perhaps
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Would you say ‘most,’ I replied, when you consider that there is a further stage of the evil in which a man is not only a life-long litigant, passing all his days in the courts, either as plaintiff or defendant, but is actually led by his bad taste to pride himself on his litigiousness; he imagines that he is a master in dishonesty; able to take every crooked turn, and wriggle into and out of every hole, bending like a withy and getting out of the way of justice: and all for what?—in order to gain small points not worth mentioning, he not knowing that so to order his life as to be able to do without a napping judge is a far higher and nobler sort of thing
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If the latter possess native sagacity, and a nameless something more,—let us call it intuition; if he show no intrusive egotism, nor disagreeably prominent characteristics of his own; if he have the power, which must be born with him, to bring his mind into such affinity with his patient’s, that this last shall unawares have spoken what he imagines himself only to have thought; if such revelations be received without tumult, and acknowledged not so often by an uttered sympathy as by silence, an inarticulate breath, and here and there a word, to indicate that all is understood; if to these qualifications of a confidant be joined the advantages afforded by his recognized character as a physician;—then, at some inevitable moment, will the soul of the sufferer be dissolved, and flow forth in a dark, but transparent stream, bringing all its mysteries into the daylight
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To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity
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Is this what it used to look like? He imagines it is
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He imagines that person’s reaction: disoriented
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Geffard pronounces this almost gleefully and pours wine into his glass, and she imagines his head as a cabinet filled with ten thousand little drawers
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He imagines two observers in a field pacing out the distance between them, then leveling their eyes on a far-off landmark: a sailing ship or a smokestack
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She moves along the tide line, almost crawling at first, and imagines the beach stretching off in either direction, ringing the promontory, embracing the outer islands, the whole filigreed tracery of the Breton coastline with its wild capes and crumbling batteries and vine-choked ruins
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She imagines the walled city behind her, its soaring ramparts, its puzzle of streets
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He spoke with her about love and truth and timeless bliss, imagining her voice
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the door and asked for my Dad, I was imagining what I called the Autocopter
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Eva leaving didn’t help the machine imagining either, given that a broken heart
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’ I commented, more than capable of imagining the conversation they must have had
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‘Stop imagining the worst, Kate
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Wrapped as I was in the cotton wool of solitary confinement, unable as I was to express any of my thoughts in concrete form or to engage in conjecture with another rational human being, nonetheless I spent hours imagining faces and clothes and names to accompany the hollow tapping sounds in the night
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I floated in the black void, imagining not the sweet smile of my saviour but the sour breath of the angel of death
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Man and wife tended their plants, made sure that their supporting canes were securely tied, weeded and hoed beds, watered and pricked out, and through their horticultural therapy they began the process of contemplation, of imagining their lives lived forever in the shadow of the hole
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dreaming state, forgot about everything in the world, imagining
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contemplation, of imagining their lives lived forever in the shadow
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He could sit for long stretches immersed in the antiquities, imagining himself among the colonnades and odea of the ancient cities, the great architectures and ideas of an age long past
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They took a short sailing trip one day when the tide was high, to Tombelaine and back, imagining as they voyaged how merchants in ships of yore must have felt as they approached the island and the fortress it once was
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The size of the land title was so large she’d trouble even imagining it
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happy official, imagining in her warped condition that she
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from imagining other cosmogonies
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imagining the sort of dwelling where a courtesan would entertain her patron
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Now, I couldn’t stop imagining all the horrible scenarios that Savannah may be placed in
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In Nerissa’s profound isolation, she’d spend entire days imagining how his epic sounded
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Edrimer felt the sweat building up on his face, his mind constantly imagining the worst and best scenarios that might be expecting him
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But thank you for imagining it possible that I was
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She’d never allowed herself the hubris of imagining his approval
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” The mind is complex beyond imagining, and we carry all of this within us, referring to it constantly
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“You’re imagining things,” he said to me
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Even as he stood discussing such matters with his officer, he was always contemplating, strategizing and imagining all sorts of tactical possibilities for his principal task
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Imagining that you are the vehicle is as
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‘Raiya?’ He was imagining the kind of manipulation Parmayan would try with her
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For much of journey back he had been imagining how Deanna would react to what he had seen at the institute; rehearsing the words in his mind
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keys on the laptop, imagining the hand on the
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He began to make deep throated sobbing sounds, a man in pain beyond imagining
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The steel, pressed firmly, kept reminding; he tried imagining he was in space, floating freely
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Standing out here imagining the worst wasn’t doing any more good than pumping Katie
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That is if you are not imagining all this shit
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imagine, and the imagining was limited by the narrow breadth of his experiences
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A shame? Vanquished ancestors, was he actually regretting what he had done? Did he feel guilty? Or was she imagining it? Maybe he had just come down to gloat
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Amaranthe almost laughed, imagining some handout in Assassinry 101, where rules of etiquette were passed out with Sicarius’s wisdom at the top of the page
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You’re imagining things, girl
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Or maybe she was imagining hints that weren’t there
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Closing his eyes and drawing air into his lungs, Darkburst breathed in the atmosphere, imagining how it would feel to address the Council from such an exalted position of power
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I stared in the mirror at my face and my tired swollen eyes, not ever imagining the mayhem to which I would return – a flurry of nurses acting swiftly under the instructions of Dr Preston
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She stared at the tower clock with squinting eyes, not used to the bright sun, and maybe I was just imagining it but I think she understood
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She pulled her arms away, and adjusted her clothing and hair, imagining it was in the worst of condition
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I began imagining all kind of scenarios
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I grinned, imagining the look of snooty disdain on her face
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I watched the smoke pouring from the lorry’s tyres in a kind of dread fascination, imagining the look of horror that must be distorting the driver’s face as he slammed his foot on the brakes
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Much of the public went to the Missing in Action and Rambo film series, vicariously imagining fighting the war again
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She smiled maliciously, imagining him standing at the reception desk feeling shy about speaking personally in public, and considered forcing embarrassing comments from him, but just giggled, saving him the torture
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I’m a compulsive dreamer, and I feel spoiled to be able to be able to make a career out of imagining things!
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The biggest difficulty is imagining Adams re elected
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If you are a student of the many metaphysical Masters offering all types of courses these days, you will realize that Imagining clearly what you want and pretending it has already come to pass, is a vital step in the manifesting process
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At some point, then, as I continued this Pretending, Imagining the trip together, which is surprisingly easy to do, suddenly someone approached us
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Imagining his winning the election itself takes some doing
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He was gulping air into his lungs now, muscles trembling, hardly able to pick up the battery, imagining all sorts of terrible creatures moving towards him in the darkness
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Too often those on the left, the center, and even the libertarian minded or pragmatic conservatives have fallen for fear mongering, false absurd claims such as imagining a nation in the Mideast or Latin America can actually be a threat to the US
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Singh sat on the edge of my bed and, this is beyond imagining, held open my mouth and blocked my nostrils at the same time
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He sat, gazing across the lot to the telephone he would use, imagining the relief there would be in her voice when he told her to include the boat in her letter
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Had it been the simply immeasurable vastness of the vista around them, this huge shaft that no mind could lay claim to even imagining it? Was it the sudden realization of having returned home in a most inexplicable, wondrous, and even uncanny fashion? Was it the combination of both? What had weakened his strong, determined mind? What had broken a man who was ready to give up his life for his unborn child, for a different, if not a better future? Hilderich could not tell, and only thought that it was an ineffable loss
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He could still hear himself laughing, imagining the look on their faces would have been such a treat for master Olom
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I’m imagining things, he told himself, it can’t be
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on bare ground, tears through the imagining
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I spluttered, imagining how Guy Fawkes and Joan of Arc must of felt
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This tool of survival was sharpened persistently over those ages before the possibility of a use of the power of this imagining could be extrapolated into a wider utility
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Just imagining the whales who swam here, and thinking about how they lived and died, and how much the world has changed since then, puts you in touch with something much bigger than you, your community or your daily life’
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I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are both trying to say something the other can’t hear, though I could be imagining it
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There is also something extremely interesting about looking at the world now, reading about a possible future world, and imagining the steps in between
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Manda had played this moment over and over again in her head, like a favorite scene from a beloved film – imagining how elated she would be to hear Daniel say he had made a mistake
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only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a
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He is imagining himself being back home on Earth and getting a special award for the furthest traveled human
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By imagining that you are born as
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He masturbated slowly, watching the action, imagining himself as the one doing the raping
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«I’ll check on her when that person leaves,» he said to himself, imagining the rape over and over in his head
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imagining that the dream is yours
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Stop imagining, stop believing
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To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that
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gold imagining that an addition of copper will improve it
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Imagining all sorts of noises and lights and men in my room
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I followed his lead, imagining the music in my mind
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His face beams, and he brushes his hair back before saying, “I was just imagining a little Alexandra, frowning as she pauses, dressed in a miniature yellow robe
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As the Pastor began to pray, Jesse closed her eyes, imagining his words racing through the atmosphere to God’s ear
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“Following me,” she said, expecting him to laugh, to say she was imagining things
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“Well at least I’m not imagining flour is turning into something else
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Jesse smiled, imagining Olivia with a child of her own, a sweet dimple faced child with big brown eyes and red hair
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walks through life imagining the destruction of the
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The newness of this proposition, without further investigation, is the act of imagining something beyond our current categories; it is the act of imagining that we would not recognize a species of treatments for lung cancer upon confrontation
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place—and here we are imagining confines that limit form as well as
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day, or even an hour, without imagining myself as the central
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occurred to me to try imagining what it would feel like if he was
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imagining that is so close to absolute madness and sheer terror that I
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is imagining that I have done something to her — something so
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I have a very difficult time imagining that they are not
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the ovaries) to do that, but it puts a big smile on my face imagining
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late and packed them up into a small box while imagining
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and the only way I got through it was by imagining that I
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It really would! Before I could only just keep my cool with him, just imagining what it would be like to kiss him but now that I actually knew there is no way that I could act like nothing had happened
Definition of Imagine
to visualize or see a picture of something in one’s mind
Examples of Imagine in a sentence
When I’m sad, I close my eyes and imagine happier times to lift my spirits.
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Emma couldn’t imagine a life without her husband, even though they were having hard times.
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The engineer could imagine the machine being built, but struggled to put his visualizations on to paper.
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Who would imagine that a tsunami would wipe out the whole city within a matter of minutes?
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Toddlers often imagine people that are not there and talk to them as if they were real.
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Sentences with imagine. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use imagine in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for imagine.
- Do you imagine it? (10)
- Imagine a collision! (10)
- Do I imagine it clearly? (9)
- Imagine how I felt, Grinnidge! (9)
- Imagine yourself in his shoes. (8)
- I let them imagine he cared for me. (10)
- Well, why do you imagine they do it? (8)
- She could imagine she scored a point. (10)
- Impossible to imagine him intimidated. (10)
- I can imagine learning to love ugliness. (10)
- Where, do you imagine, she would lay it? (10)
- You may imagine what I felt and how I acted. (4)
- To imagine it a moment was an injury to her. (10)
- You cannot imagine what depends on it for me. (12)
- Come, imagine that, if you are for comparisons. (10)
- It means more to me than you can possibly imagine. (8)
- You cannot imagine how suddenly it has come on me! (4)
- There of all the world you might imagine Gods to sit. (10)
- And even to imagine such a meeting filled him with fear. (12)
- But look forward, and you cannot imagine our separation. (10)
- Let us imagine a composer of the 12th-century at his work. (3)
- You are in a much more dangerous position than you imagine. (10)
- No one could imagine of her that she spoke broken-spiritedly. (10)
- Few members of the privileged Band dare even imagine the thing. (10)
- Who could imagine this to be the letter of an old crabbed miser? (10)
- They may not know it, and those who are richer may not imagine it. (9)
- I cannot imagine a people so mentally and morally depraved as that! (7)
- He could not imagine that Lady Romfrey required more of her husband. (10)
- But do you imagine you can go about the town taking things out of spite? (8)
- She was unable to imagine danger where her own impelling thirst was pure. (10)
- She does not imagine the effect of her silence upon the magnanimous wretch. (10)
- There you imagine what you will; you live what you imagine. (10)
- Imagine my surprise at finding myself thus seated amongst my old Acquaintance. (4)
- And yet I imagine all these people are followers of One who never owned anything. (8)
- I can imagine, that before she had seen any body superior, she might tolerate him. (4)
- I should imagine his opinions to be extremely good, for they are not a multitude. (10)
- But we are forbidden to imagine the conducting of an argument thereon with a lady. (10)
- Besides, think how difficult it is for them to imagine themselves in such a position. (8)
- I do not imagine he figures much in the letters to Mansfield Park; do you, Miss Price? (4)
- What proportion of the upper classes do you imagine is even conscious of that necessity? (8)
- He did not speak; but I can imagine everything he would have said, had he opened his Mouth. (4)
- How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine. (4)
- Now, imagine a master of the Comic treating this theme, and particularly the argument on it. (10)
- Cousin imagine what my transports will be when I feel the dear precious drops trickle on my face! (4)
- You may indeed imagine grief in the very rock that sees its flower fading to the withered shred. (10)
- He begged me as a man to imagine the scene: the old Bloated Bourbon of London Wall and Camberwell! (10)
- There was one whose colour he liked, a dove-grey, but to imagine Megan clothed in it was beyond him. (8)
- And now that he perceived this, he was bewildered, yet could not imagine how to get on terms with them. (8)
- Imagine an old, white, timbered cottage with a thatched roof, and no single line about it quite straight. (8)
- He could imagine the damp touch of very expectant fingers; the dying look of life-drinking eyes; and, oh! (22)
- She could imagine how much he disliked to go, if such a ship as the Colmannia did not make him want to go. (9)
- It is false to imagine that schemers and workers in the dark are destitute of the saving gift of conscience. (10)
- You know the weak side of her character, and may imagine the sentiments and expressions which were torturing me. (4)
- In trying to understand why her sister should imagine it, she began to know that she had in truth deceived Dahlia. (22)
- It intimated a romantic personality in the author, and the world still likes to imagine romantic things of authors. (9)
- How they will bear so much dissipation I cannot imagine; of their spirits I have no fear, I only dread their health. (4)
- Or, finally, imagine that you yourself had become impoverished, and were forced to withdraw all assistance from me. (12)
- When she should be stronger, there might be a pale flush in it, like sunset on snow, but Verrian had to imagine that. (9)
- I knew that he could not conceive the idea of jealousy existing in me, as little as I could imagine unfaithfulness in him. (10)
- Nor does the organization, as some of its critics seem to imagine, get any special privileges from the telegraph companies. (16)
- How little the onlookers imagine that after the act the human rooster frequently drops in a state of collapse and exhaustion! (21)
- Imagine the behaviour of people round a slain tiger that does not compel them to fly, and may yet stretch out a dreadful paw! (10)
- Should he ever propose to me (which I have very little reason to imagine he has any thought of doing), I shall not accept him. (4)
- He ought to have known; he ought to have given them warning; but when did a Forsyte ever imagine that his conduct could upset anybody! (8)
- So conversational were his eyes and brows that he could persuade you to imagine he was carrying on a dialogue without opening his mouth. (10)
- However, I do not imagine that it was a very smiling time for any literary endeavorer at home in the life-and-death civil war then waging. (9)
- He dutifully tried to imagine another issue to the disaster of the night, and to realize himself suddenly bereft of her who so filled his life. (9)
- And imagine the celestial refreshment of having a pure decency in the place of sham; real flesh; a soul born active, wind-beaten, but ascending. (10)
- Where this people finds the secret of its pretty speeches, I cannot imagine; unless the secret should be no other than a sincere desire to please! (2)
- Dudley took the word, leaving her to imagine freedom, until once more her mother or her father, inspired by him, came interceding, her mother actually supplicating. (10)
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[ ih-maj-in ]
/ ɪˈmædʒ ɪn /
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verb (used with object), im·ag·ined, im·ag·in·ing.
to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
to think, believe, or fancy: He imagined the house was haunted.
to assume; suppose: I imagine they’ll be here soon.
to conjecture; guess: I cannot imagine what you mean.
Archaic. to plan, scheme, or plot.
verb (used without object), im·ag·ined, im·ag·in·ing.
to form mental images of things not present to the senses; use the imagination.
to suppose; think; conjecture.
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Origin of imagine
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English imaginen from Middle French imaginer from Latin imāginārī, equivalent to imāgin- (stem of imāgō ) image + -ā- thematic vowel + -rī infinitive ending
synonym study for imagine
1. Imagine, conceive, conceive of, realize refer to bringing something before the mind. To imagine is, literally, to form a mental image of something: to imagine yourself in London. To conceive is to form something by using one’s imagination: How has the author conceived the first act of his play? To conceive of is to comprehend through the intellect something not perceived through the senses: Wilson conceived of a world free from war. To realize is to make an imagined thing real or concrete to oneself, to grasp fully its implications: to realize the extent of one’s folly.
OTHER WORDS FROM imagine
i·mag·in·er, nounpre·im·ag·ine, verb (used with object), pre·im·ag·ined, pre·im·ag·in·ing.re·i·mag·ine, verb (used with object), re·i·mag·ined, re·i·mag·in·ing.un·im·ag·ined, adjective
well-i·mag·ined, adjective
Words nearby imagine
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MORE ABOUT IMAGINE
What does imagine mean?
To imagine is to form a mental likeness of something or someone not present, as in Imagine flying in a rocket to Mars.
To imagine also means to think of something, especially in a way that it is not currently, as in Imagine what the house might look like after all these years.
To imagine is also to assume, as in Oh dear, the teacher imagined that we all did our homework.
Finally, to imagine can mean to guess, as in Can you imagine what it would be like for it to snow in the summer?
Example: I can’t imagine they will take much longer, so we should just wait here.
Where does imagine come from?
The first records of the term imagine come from the 1300s. It ultimately comes from the Latin imāginārī.
Imagine is sometimes used for describing daydreaming, especially about something that you might find pleasant but probably cannot happen. A famous example of this is John Lennon’s song “Imagine,” which asks the listener to imagine a world without greed, hatred, or suffering. And in his song “God’s Plan,” which is about his belief that everything happens for a reason, Drake sings, “Imagine if I never met the broskis.”
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How is imagine used in real life?
Imagine is commonly used in casual conversations to talk about forming mental images.
Could you imagine loving and raising a child only to have that child record a live concert on their phone?
— Cole M. Sprouse (@colesprouse) April 15, 2018
My life is strange imagine living in a dream world that u didn’t dream
— Liam (@LiamPayne) June 2, 2014
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Imagine what it must be like to cross the Shibuya Scramble Crossing.
Words related to imagine
brainstorm, conceptualize, create, depict, devise, envisage, envision, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, figure, form, frame, harbor, image, invent, nurture, perceive
How to use imagine in a sentence
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It’s hard to even imagine school without a classic Mead Composition Book.
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Just imagine if the more than 200,000 people who voted in Jefferson County, Kentucky, during the primary had actually shown up at the county’s only polling location.
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“It’s actually not possible to imagine an AP class being shut down abruptly at Scripps Ranch High or many others,” Lewis writes.
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It’s actually not possible to imagine an AP class being shut down abruptly at Scripps Ranch High or many others.
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Now imagine that you want to insert a new edge connecting two nodes in a planar graph, say nodes 1 and 6 in the example below.
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“You can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.
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Imagine waking up to find a guy who looks like a tech startup employee eating your charred crispy leg.
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If you think divorce between two people is messy and traumatic, imagine divorcing yourself.
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Imagine living 28 years—your whole life—trapped inside the wrong body.
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Now imagine that one day hope appeared, an unexpected opportunity to free yourself, to finally be yourself.
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I would ask you to imagine it translated into every language, a common material of understanding throughout all the world.
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And furthermore, I imagine something else about this—quite unlike the old Bible—I imagine all of it periodically revised.
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You may imagine the effect this missive produced upon the proud, high-minded doctor of divinity.
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We can imagine that, as soon as a printed book ceased to be a great rarity, it became an object of great abhorrence.
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I thought you said Meadowville, and never havin’ been there, I didn’t see how I could imagine the station.
British Dictionary definitions for imagine
verb
(when tr, may take a clause as object) to form a mental image of
(when tr, may take a clause as object) to think, believe, or guess
(tr; takes a clause as object) to suppose; assumeI imagine he’ll come
(tr; takes a clause as object) to believe or assume without foundationhe imagines he knows the whole story
an archaic word for plot 1
sentence substitute
Also: imagine that! an exclamation of surprise
Derived forms of imagine
imaginable, adjectiveimaginably, adverbimaginer, noun
Word Origin for imagine
C14: from Latin imāginārī to fancy, picture mentally, from imāgō likeness; see image
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