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Example sentences for "imagined"

Lexicographically close words:
imaginations; imaginative; imaginatively; imaginativeness; imagine; imaginem; imaginer; imagines; imagineth; imaging
  1. A man here and there has turned up who has imagined something true to what he has really seen and felt, and has projected it across the foot-lights in such a way as to make other people feel it.

  2. If a British Government could be imagined behaving in such a way, the British population would leave England, become French citizens, and help to turn out the damned intruders!

  3. Each imagined that the war would further the chances of the future as they dreamed of it.

  4. It was so good of him to tell me it was clean, for I should never have imagined it otherwise.

  5. It may be imagined what was the astonishment and consternation of the examining board of high Ministers of State, who had just examined them, and marked out the standing of each man according to their own inclinations.

  6. Chinese thought it all out long ago, how those that were only imagined were the best.

  7. Without entering upon the vexed question as to the decency of the undraped, it can be imagined that no pictures of the kind exist in a country where no woman ever bares any part of her person in society.

  8. One was so full of birds' droppings that we imagined they could never have been cleared away since the day it was built.

  9. Lister heard nothing from Mr. Utterly, but imagined him swelling with pride and heard his sharp, high voice going on interminably about the rights of the public in all the details of an author's life.

  10. Here was Waltonville, after all, as he imagined it, and in order that such a Waltonville might be preserved, it was endurable that some discomforts should be preserved also.

  11. All the dreadful things I ever imagined came true.

  12. My feelings at this moment may be better imagined than described.

  13. The man who lives by it is restored to that place in the world which he has a right to occupy, instead of regarding himself as an alien and an outcast from imagined heaven.

  14. It must not, however, be imagined that the change in either case depended upon chance.

  15. He imagined that she had inherited enough of her father's reckless character to make her willing to take a risk.

  16. He imagined that their appearance must have been somewhat startling, but he knew it takes a good deal to disturb the equanimity of a Hudson Bay Scot.

  17. He imagined that he had a clue to it in his pocket, though he could not follow it up for the present.

  18. You imagined that a dog-fancier would specialize in cats?

  19. He imagined from his sensations that the temperature must be about fifty degrees below zero.

  20. He imagined that Clarke had been a person of some importance among them.

  21. It was curious that he should have been living alone among the empty tepees, but Harding imagined that he was in some way accountable for the Indians' departure, and he wondered where he was going when he crossed the range.

  22. He loved you, Dick, and I imagined he expected you to do even better than his son.

  23. He had not imagined that his object would be known, and he had counted upon Challoner's being surprised and thrown off his guard.

  24. At times he imagined he noticed a tender shyness in her manner, and though it delighted him he afterward took himself to task.

  25. He imagined that Benson had made a hard fight, but he was being beaten by his craving.

  26. It may be imagined that there is some want of that firmness and decision, which ought to be the constant companions of sovereign authority.

  27. Morris having told Mr Osgood, that he imagined I was ready for a conference with them.

  28. I knew not then that 'twas to see me alone he came, as he had not given me the least hint of it; but my parents imagined he was wooing me to become his bride.

  29. He desired his dismission from the Countess, which being refused by his Lady, who imagined him to be a faithful servant, he left her clandestinely.

  30. From the point of view of the complex vision, the will, although easily differentiated from both consciousness and emotion, cannot be imagined as existing apart from these.

  31. I mean the experiment of trying to visualize, by an arbitrary exercise of fancy, the sort of form or shape which this formless and shapeless thing may be imagined as possessing.

  32. The only explanation I can think of is that the person sending it may have imagined your relations with Miss Anvoy to be at an end--may have been told they were by Mrs. Saltram.

  33. She had hinted at her wish to stay in England and work for herself; but she did not insist or trouble her father, and as he did not oppose her she imagined that the affair was understood.

  34. I therefore fired half a dozen shots into the bushes at the spot where I imagined he lay, and soon the growling and commotion ceased, and all was still.

  35. He imagined he could see the deputy just about the time they arrived at the county line, and the mental picture seemed to amuse him.

  36. She had not met Waring, but she imagined much from what she had heard and read.

  37. She imagined she could see a horse standing back of the trees round the spring.

  38. I never imagined it could be so charming.

  39. He imagined that some women he had seen would look like heck in such a riding-coat and breeches.

  40. Nobody is able to visualize a battle in which two million men are engaged; it can only be imagined as a series of smaller battles.

  41. Don Nicolás Estévanez, who imagined himself an anarchist, would fly into a rage if he read an article which concealed a gallicism in it.

  42. These pious souls and good Christians imagined that I might need that work in order to earn my living, so in the odour of sanctity they did whatever lay in their power to deprive me of my means of support.

  43. The old time soldier trusted in his star without scruple and without fear, and imagined that he could dominate fate as the gambler fancies that he masters the laws of chance.

  44. We imagined that the surroundings would be "Grand and Green" as Jim phrased it, but we were to be disappointed.

  45. I imagined that it came from the slope just below, so I went cautiously down between the rocks.

  46. I imagined that I was Ivanhoe or Richard Coeur de Lion and this added more vigor to my blows.

  47. This notion is about as well founded as that of the people who, in the middle ages, imagined that Virgil was a great conjurer.

  48. Once I could never have imagined it at my time of life.

  49. Every day both promise and fulfilment seemed richer than he had ever imagined any future experience could be.

  50. Why, papa, when at first I imagined that Mara might have thought I had been hinting in my very foolish talk that I wished what afterward took place, I was so overwhelmed with shame that I could hardly speak.

  51. David had not imagined it would be pleasant, but it was a great deal more unpleasant than he had anticipated.

  52. But if the wary batsman imagined (as he not unfrequently did) that this was the prelude to a slow and thoughtful ball, he occasionally (though not always) found he was quite in error.

  53. About Adams: I always imagined that as long as he wasn’t bothered, he didn’t mind much what happened, short of a public row.

  54. Word of his rescue was telephoned to Mary and her mother, and it can be imagined how they regarded Tom Swift for his part in the affair.

  55. But perhaps it was some one not used to riding in autos, and he may have imagined the accident was worse than it was, and called for help involuntarily.

  56. I've had a lot of failures, and the thing isn't so easy as I at first imagined it would be.

  57. Probably, being only six, she imagined that this was the ordinary and natural method of salutation.

  58. The angry foreman came crunching savagely along, his heavy boots resounding upon the hard floor, the hickory club in his hand occasionally striking against the wall as though he imagined himself already belaboring the recreant Swanson.

  59. I thought I heard voices talkin' out thar later on, over beyond toward the window, but maybe I imagined it.

  60. You see, I imagined you might possibly make use of me in some minor capacity until I learn more about the business.

  61. If Winston had previously imagined his earlier steps toward histrionic honors were destined to be easy ones, he was very soon undeceived under the guidance of the enthusiastic manager.

  62. Once he started and raised his pistol, and I imagined our time had come; but then he turned to one side, and I breathed easier.

  63. In the meantime he gazed around anxiously in the direction from which he imagined the shot had come.

  64. My feelings can be better imagined than described.

  65. There was another rustle, and then came what I imagined was a half-subdued growl of rage.

  66. The tree roots were slimy, and I imagined they must be the home of water snakes.

  67. On we went in the direction we imagined the trail to be, but taking care to avoid the bog.

  68. The lieutenant in command had been wounded, and when he saw us coming from the woods he imagined we must outnumber his men, for he gave a hasty order to retreat, and led the way.

  69. If this is the way in which Servians are wearing their laurels, it can be imagined what the effect of recent events has been on impressionable Greece.

  70. It is plain, as Zimmer says, from the office of Yama's dogs, that they kept out of paradise unworthy souls; so that the annihilation cannot have been imagined to be purely corporeal.

  71. Footnote 74: Varuna's forgiving of sins may be explained as a washing out of sin, just as fire burns it out, and so loosens therewith the imagined bond, V.

  72. It is quite impossible to identify the seven, and it is probable that no Vedic poet ever imagined them to be a group of this precise number.

  73. As he plodded back and forward he imagined himself some hero of antiquity.

  74. Mrs. Peterkin had imagined he would come out a great scholar, because she could never get him away from his books.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imagined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.