Example Sentences

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But Timothy Burbery of Marshall University believes Dante may have been imagining something much more physical and destructive.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

Sade reveals the utopia she and her girlfriend, along with other fellow inmates, have been imagining, a collective portrait of a peaceful haven for “free formerly incarcerated Black girls.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025

Instead, Twitter users have been imagining who else could appear in the Barbie Cinematic Universe.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2023

We have been imagining and describing one of those ostensible eternities — the afterlife — for millenniums.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2021

I might have been imagining it, hut I thought she sounded surprised.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins