IMAGINATION in a Sentence

Learn IMAGINATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
326 example sentences for IMAGINATION, such as:
1. He gave free rein to his imagination.
2. His imagination played round that queer idea.
3. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
4. But they were uttered only within his imagination.
5. Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of IMAGINATION
imagination
 n.  the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
 n.  the ability to form mental images of things or events
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1
2  I knew well therefore what would be my father's feelings, but I could not tear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself, but which had taken an irresistible hold of my imagination.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  But I did not feel the inconvenience of the weather; my imagination was busy in scenes of evil and despair.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  I formed in my imagination a thousand pictures of presenting myself to them, and their reception of me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
5  His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
6  His soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the world-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
7  I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
8  Thus has a week passed away, while I have listened to the strangest tale that ever imagination formed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
9  My imagination was vivid, yet my powers of analysis and application were intense; by the union of these qualities I conceived the idea and executed the creation of a man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
10  His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people--his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
11  Her imagination was somewhat affected, and, had she been of a softer moral and intellectual fibre would have been still more so, by the strange and solitary anguish of her life.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
12  In Arthur Dimmesdale, thought and imagination were so active, and sensibility so intense, that the bodily infirmity would be likely to have its groundwork there.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
13  But they were uttered only within his imagination.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
14  Oftener, however, its credibility rested on the faith of some lonely eye-witness, who beheld the wonder through the coloured, magnifying, and distorted medium of his imagination, and shaped it more distinctly in his after-thought.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
15  Marianne was astonished to find how much the imagination of her mother and herself had outstripped the truth.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
Example Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
1  I can never make up stories - I have absolutely no imagination.
2  The new policies appear to have caught the imagination of the public.
3  Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination.
4  He tried to practice upon the imagination and credulity of the public.
5  His imagination conjured up a vision of the normal family life he had never had.
6  We need someone with enterprise and imagination to design a marketing strategy.
7  These people do exist; they're not figments of my imagination.
8  The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imagination.
9  In spite of some immaturity in the figure drawing and painting, it showed real imagination.
10  He gave free rein to his imagination.
11  It doesn't take much imagination to guess what she meant.
12  Live out of your imagination, not your history.
13  His imagination played round that queer idea.
14  It is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, vigor of the emotions.
15  Italian football captured the imagination of the nation last season.