imagine
verb (used with object)
to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
is imagining
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present progressiveof imagine (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Thirty-five-year-old Getenesh Gabiso, who lives in Alamura, a farming village just outside Hawassa, a major city in southern Ethiopia, is one of those who is imagining the difference it could make.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025
Frequently, a child is imagining something worse than what is happening.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
Still, part of the fun is imagining life through the lens of the characters.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2023
Now he is imagining making organisms that are reconfigurable and “immortal” in that “when they die, the individual cells crawl off and make their life alone and maybe rejoin again later into something else.”
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023
And I found myself doing what I have long since banned myself from doing—that is, imagining my parents were coming back, with David and Joseph, and wishing they were.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
