Example Sentences

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"Imagining it actually attacking like that... it could be terrifying to face."

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

Imagining Roman Britain conjures up images of emperors, gladiators, posh villas - and the army that held the empire together.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2024

Imagining these scenarios can help you evaluate the viability of your community’s infrastructure in disasters of many kinds.

From Slate • Oct. 19, 2023

"Imagining each of these individual molecular LEGOs will emit at different wavelengths, one can in principle design a semiconductor material that would emit an arbitrary color by selecting different molecular octahedral LEGOs," he explained.

From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 2023

Imagining this phone conversation, and my role in the events leading up to it, I fell to my knees with dry heaves, retching over and over as the icy wind blasted against my back.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer