Use imagine in a sentence
Sentences starting with imagine
- Imagine a man worth a hundred millions who finds himself suddenly penniless and fifty million in debt in his old age. [5]
- Imagine yourself there, with that watery doom creeping higher and higher around you. [5]
- Imagine the Grand Vizier in solemn council with the magnates of the realm, spelling his way through the hated newspaper, and finally delivering his profound decision: "This thing means mischief --it is too darkly, too suspiciously inoffensive--suppress it! [5]
- Imagine a big storm, and a hundred of my machines all cursing away at once--splendid spectacle, splendid!--you couldn't hear yourself think. [5]
- Imagine a stranger staking out a mining claim among the costly shrubbery in your front yard and calmly proceeding to lay waste the ground with pick and shovel and blasting powder! [5]
- Imagine a little sloop in the wash of the seas and the buccaneers piling down on him, and no chance of escape, and then a great British battleship appearing, and the situation saved--that was how we were placed here till the hounds arrived. [11]
- Imagine a great parallelogram made of log cabins set end to end, their common outside wall being the wall of the fort, and loopholed. [9]
- Imagine the size of the silence that would result on the instant. [5]
- Imagine the benefits of so admirable a system in a piece of river twelve or thirteen hundred miles long, whose channel was shifting every day! [5]
- Imagine a file of elephants marching through such a crevice of a street and scraping the paint off both sides of it with their hides. [5]
Sentences ending with imagine
- We have never yet seen the like, I imagine. [10]
- She does not wear her heart upon her sleeve, I imagine. [11]
- By George, she was more desirable than he had ever dared to imagine! [9]
- How Mr. Marmaduke was living with the establishment they wrote of was more than the honest Scotchman could imagine. [9]
- The guide sounded two sonorous notes, about half an octave apart; the echo answered with the most enchanting, the most melodious, the richest blending of sweet sounds that one can imagine. [5]
- You come nearer to the great fathers of modern medicine than some of you imagine. [3]
- He is dear to her, dearer than any of you imagine. [10]
- We have not the easy task that they imagine. [5]
- I grant, further, that it would help somewhat at the North, though not so much, I fear, as you and those you represent imagine. [7]
- That would about tally with Little Rock's hottest day also, I imagine. [5]
Short sentences using imagine
- You can imagine the rest. [6]
- You can imagine our anxiety. [9]
- I can imagine it. [5]
- I can imagine it all. [11]
- Easier than you imagine. [9]
- You would never imagine it. [5]
- You can imagine! [2]
- Imagine. [8]
- Imagine that! [5]
- Imagine it! [5]
Sentences containing imagine two or more times
- We can imagine the beauty that was once in an aged face; we can imagine the forest if we see the stumps; but we can not absolutely see these things when they are not there. [5]
- The outsider, B, must imagine that his incantations are the healing-power that is curing A, and A must imagine that this is so. [5]
- The outsider, B, must imagine that his incantations are the healing power that is curing A, and A must imagine that this is so. [5]
- And yet it is difficult to imagine an historical character whose activity was so unswervingly directed to a single aim; and it would be difficult to imagine any aim more worthy or more consonant with the will of the whole people. [2]
- You could not imagine it--you could never imagine anything like it. [5]
- He could little imagine Foorgat doing this from mere courtesy; he could not imagine any woman, save one wholly sophisticated, or one entirely innocent, trusting herself with him--and in such a place. [11]
- I could imagine him there, because I could imagine myself there; and I think I should not have been interested in a hen that was laying an egg; my interest would have been with the parties that were laying the bombshells. [5]
- For how could he imagine that we simpletons would go on using his jury plan after circumstances had stripped it of its usefulness, any more than he could imagine that we would go on using his candle-clock after we had invented chronometers? [5]
More example sentences with the word imagine in them
- You are so young, that nobody would imagine you were entrusted with a secret mission. [10]
- I imagine what you have gone through," and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. [2]
- I can imagine you don't want to lose her, eh? [11]
- He inspired her with an instinctive fear; and she tried to imagine, in contrast, the erect and soldierly figure of General Chiltern performing the same office. [9]
- Looking at the whole field for a moment dispassionately, objectively, as the dear Teutonic philosophers say, and merely as an exhibition of phenomena, I cannot imagine any other issue. [6]
- I can't imagine who told you that story. [9]
- There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life--life's "experiences"--are in some way useful to us. [5]
- Sparkling on their white-robed breasts or shoulders were the colors of their favorite knights, and were it not for the fact that the doughty heroes appeared on unromantic mules, it would have been easy to imagine one of King Arthur's gala-days. [5]
- She was gazing where she knew him to be; but she could not imagine him otherwise than as he had been here. [2]
- We were unable, when we reached the residence of old man Tatem, to imagine how the local superstition of his wealth arose. [4]
- We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. [2]
- I cannot imagine what could ever have become of that fellow. [5]
- One can imagine what confusion and obscurity would result from such an account of the duel. [2]
- You can't imagine what a darling she was, that last two or three days; and how fine, and good, and sweet, and noble-and joyful, thank Heaven! [5]
- When such capers were cut at Whitehall, we may imagine what the revelry was in the Bankside taverns. [4]
- An' all this was happenin' quick--you can't imagine how quick. [13]
- It is all very well to imagine what you would do under such circumstances. [4]
- She had completely upset his life, increasingly distracted his mind until now he could imagine no peace unless he possessed her. [9]
- Can those other uninspired visitors do it, or do they only happily imagine they do? [5]
- Let us imagine two men who have come out to fight a duel with rapiers according to all the rules of the art of fencing. [2]
- He had often tried to imagine his feelings if he should meet her again: what he should do and say,--what would be their footing. [9]
- Oh dearest--this sorely tortured heart, too--you can not even imagine how weary I am! [10]
- I should hate to think there wasn't--but I can't imagine it. [9]
- I was surprised to see it as a tree, standing by itself, and making the most delicious roof a pair of young lovers could imagine to sit under. [6]
- We must try to imagine, too, the logical continuation of that triumph in the Baiae of our modern republic and empire, Newport. [9]
- This was difficult to imagine, since in that case the accused would have given himself the loss, and the Church the advantage. [10]
- One must try to imagine those solid masses of splendid color, one above another, up and up, against the blue sky, and the Indian sun turning them all to beds of fire and flame. [5]
- It is easy to imagine how this should have tickled the captain, who always had my horsemanship at heart; and when it came to Chartersea's descent into the Serpentine, I thought he would go into apoplexy. [9]
- But he tried to imagine a Massachusetts senator, Mr. Sumner, for instance, going through the rat story, and couldn't. [9]
- To be able to go a thousand miles he must imagine that something good awaits him at the end of those thousand miles. [2]
- Why, she'd begin to doubt, right away, and imagine a lot of sicknesses and dangers and objections, and first you know she'd take it all back. [5]
- All I desired to ask Mr. Bixby was the simple question whether he was ass enough to really imagine he was going to find that plantation on a night when all plantations were exactly alike and all the same color. [5]
- And half the time they ain't sick at all,--they only imagine it. [9]
- John likes it, though; it soothes him, he takes about two dozen whiffs, and then rolls over to dream, Heaven only knows what, for we could not imagine by looking at the soggy creature. [5]
- You could imagine those lights the width of a continent away--and that hidden under the intervening darkness were hills, and winding rivers, and weary wastes of plain and desert--and even then the tremendous vista stretched on, and on, and on!--to the fires and far beyond! [5]
- I imagine that this, by itself, would rather repel him when he saw it in the possession of a woman. [14]
- The monks call this apartment the "Chapel of the Invention of the Cross"--a name which is unfortunate, because it leads the ignorant to imagine that a tacit acknowledgment is thus made that the tradition that Helena found the true Cross here is a fiction--an invention. [5]
- He liked to think of George as the inheritor of such a place, as the son of a millionaire, as a "college graduate," as an influential man of affairs; he liked to imagine Amy as the wife of such another. [9]
- Once I mislaid them; you will not be able to imagine the terrors of that evening. [5]
- I can imagine their purport, and they shall influence me as if I had read them all. [10]
- I can imagine their placid existence if the Prince should not appear, and I can well believe that Irene and Stanhope would have many a tumultuous passage in the passionate symphony of their lives. [4]
- So I imagine the vengeance, the curse which calls down ruin upon the head of a foe. [10]
- We sat at the table till twelve o'clock; but you must not imagine that everybody sat still all the time, or that, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, the principal object of the entertainment was eating. [4]
- Men born in the same year watch each other, especially as the sands of life begin to run low, as we can imagine so many damaged hour-glasses to keep an eye on each other. [6]
- I cannot imagine the putting of that question without feeling the tremors which shake a wooer as he falters out the words the answer to which will make him happy or wretched. [6]
- It sits in the midst of a vast dead-level, and one is obliged to imagine that land may be had for the asking, and no taxes to pay, so lavishly do they use it. [5]
- I cannot speak the language; I am too old not to learn how, also too busy when I am busy, and too indolent when I am not; wherefore some will imagine that I am having a dull time of it. [5]
- One may imagine the joy of Howells and the others in this ludicrous extravaganza, which could have been written by no one but Mark Twain. [5]
- I can imagine the heart retaining much tenderness and sympathy with suffering when the soul itself has ceased to struggle for the higher life, when the mind has lost, in regard to life, the final discrimination of what is right and wrong. [4]
- The waves of the great movement abate, and on the calm surface eddies are formed in which float the diplomatists, who imagine that they have caused the floods to abate. [2]
- The assertion of the dignity of man and of labor is, we imagine, the sum and substance of the equality and communism of the New Testament. [4]
- We can imagine the delight of the humorist in reading this tribute to his power; and indeed it is so amusing in itself that he can hardly do better than reproduce the article in full in his next monthly Memoranda. [5]
- No later than the day after to-morrow, I imagine, you may meet there with several companions from the Museum. [10]
- The sight of the bread doubled his hunger; but it was good to look at it, any how, and imagine what one might do if one only had it. [5]
- I couldn't imagine that young man being more in love with anybody, unless it was himself. [8]
- Do you imagine that there is some other way of looking at it? [5]
- Do you imagine that the maiden who can thus inflame the calmest thinker in Thebes, will not be coveted by a hundred of the common herd when her protector fails her? [10]
- Let us imagine that the kings are a procession, and that they have come out of the Ark and down Ararat for exercise and are now starting back again up the zigzag road. [5]
- We might imagine that something like this would occur. [4]
- And don't imagine that I am on my way to the poorhouse, for I am not; or that I am uneasy, for I am not; or that I am uncomfortable or unhappy--for I never am. [5]
- One would imagine that he had exhausted the vicissitudes of fortune. [11]
- I did imagine that everything had been said about life at sea that could be said, but no matter, it was all a failure and lies, nothing but lies with a thin varnish of fact,--only you have stated it as it absolutely is. [5]
- The aggravation of that chap sir, has exceeded anything you can imagine, it has indeed. [12]
- One would imagine that Cauchon was ready to begin the trial by this time. [5]
- Could he imagine that anything might compensate for his absence in the coming months, in this year of all years in her life? [11]
- She sought to summon up in her mind the glimpses she had had of the wonderful lands from which they had come, to imagine their lives in that earlier environment. [9]
- We cannot imagine such a thing as a veteran Scotch Commander-in-Chief comporting himself in the field like a windy melodramatic actor, but Cooper could. [5]
- It was the strangest phase of life one can imagine. [5]
- And they were so almost straight-up-and-down, sometimes, that one could not imagine a man being able to keep his footing upon such a surface, yet there are paths, and the Swiss people go up and down them every day. [5]
- I imagine that she was bored, for she looked it. [9]
- You imagine that she is going to begin a talk about her marriage and finish with some account of her father and mother. [5]
- What with these several diversions and the sorrows and sicknesses of his own household, we can readily imagine that literary work had been performed under difficulties. [5]
- She would neither seek him nor strive to get possession of him, but if she could not imagine where and with what people he was living, she would die of longing. [10]
- We can not see the long array of chariots and mail-clad men laden with the spoils of conquest, but we can imagine the pageant, after a fashion. [5]
- Just imagine a Scotland Yard detective with such a delicate business to do. [11]
- In the ideal school, as I imagine it, the pupils of the senior class should be briefly made acquainted with what each one of the principal professions offers and requires from its members. [10]
- I try to saturate myself with that form, to impress myself with her every attitude and gesture, her color, her movement, and then I shall imagine the form under the influence of passion. [4]
- On the day Rudyard married Jasmine he would have cut off his hand rather than imagine that he would enter his wife's room helpless from drink and singing a song which belonged to loose nights on the Limpopo and the Vaal. [11]
- It is a river of desolation; and instead of reminding you, like other beautiful rivers, of an angel which has descended for the benefit of man, you imagine it a devil, whose energies have been only overcome by the wonderful power of steam. [5]
- Tradition, order, observance, responsibility, authority it was difficult to imagine these as a logical part of the natural sequence of her life. [9]
- The woven picture represented paradise as the Persians imagine it--full of green trees, flowers and fruits. [10]
- It was a regular "Mark Twain" notion, and it is hard to-day to imagine Howells's continued enthusiasm in it. [5]
- Before the litters reached the little castle a gust of wind rose, driving large drops of rain, straw, and withered leaves-Barbara could not imagine whence they came in the month of May--into her face. [10]
- Fruit cannot be raised on this earth to taste as you imagine those pears would taste. [4]
- I find it quite impossible to imagine Him, in life, standing sponsor for that museum there, and taking pleasure in its sumptuous shows. [5]
- He can make poor Smith imagine that the most innocent little thing he does is an odious sin; and then he sets to work and almost tortures the soul out of him about it. [5]
- It had ever pleased me to imagine that Dorothy's mother had been in her youth like Dorothy. [9]
- So the penknife played an important part on every writing-desk, and it was impossible to imagine a good penman who did not possess skill in the art of shaping the quills. [10]
- It is very picturesque, and withal so natural that one might almost imagine it still flowed. [5]
- Another night has passed, and we are called upon to imagine the watery sunlight of a mild winter afternoon filtering through bare trees on the heads of a multitude. [9]
- They did not part till the sun was rising above the eastern hills; as they separated Paula said: "So this morning a new life begins for me, which I can well imagine will, by your help, be pleasanter than that which is past. [10]
- Think of the paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth; imagine the boulder it emerged from on some petrified legislator's shoulders. [5]
- They imagine a Paradise full of unspeakably alluring joys--but we, my son--we shall meet again in our own, shall we not? [10]
- You are usually paid for your trouble; consequently, your walk inland always turns out to be one of the most crooked, involved, purposeless, and interesting experiences a body can imagine. [5]
- Just you imagine our trying to achieve these marvels! [5]
- We imagine that our queer official costumery was deliberately devised to symbolise our Republican Simplicity--a quality which we have never possessed, and are too old to acquire now, if we had any use for it or any leaning toward it. [5]
- In a minute or two I began to imagine that my ideas were clouded. [5]
- As there is only room for about four hundred ladies, and a thousand and more tickets are given out, you may imagine the scramble. [4]
- Hitherto he had only been able to imagine him as he had looked in life, but now the vision of him stretched at full length, stark and pale like the dead Pellicanus, often rose before his mind. [10]
- First it is one place; then another; then some more; and it goes on spreading and spreading, and at last the territory is all occupied, and nobody can imagine what you feel like, nor how unpleasant it is. [5]
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