IMAGINARY in a Sentence

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Mr. Collins, to be sure, was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMAGINARY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
imaginary
 a.  having existence only in the imagination; fanciful; visionary
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  Long, quiet days she spent, not lonely nor idle, for her little world was peopled with imaginary friends, and she was by nature a busy bee.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
2  As one of these packets contained characteristic notes from the party, we will rob an imaginary mail, and read them.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
3  And when Meg told him to behave himself and go away, he wrung imaginary tears out of his handkerchief, and staggered round the corner as if in utter despair.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
4  An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons; and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  His regard for her was quite imaginary; and the possibility of her deserving her mother's reproach prevented his feeling any regret.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
6  Mr. Collins, to be sure, was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
7  But, though this might be imaginary, she could not be deceived as to his behaviour to Miss Darcy, who had been set up as a rival to Jane.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44
8  If these feelings had not found an imaginary gratification, the appearance of the city had yet in itself sufficient beauty to obtain our admiration.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
9  Her one baby-voice served a multitude of imaginary personages, old and young, to talk withal.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
10  As Marianne's affection for her mother was sincere, it must triumph with little difficulty, over the imaginary evils she had started.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39
11  Then Jip laid hold of a bit of geranium with his teeth, and worried imaginary cats in it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
12  Thinking that my aunt might have relapsed into one of her old alarms, and might be watching the progress of some imaginary conflagration in the distance, I went to speak to her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
13  As he went on talking, his eyes glittered more and more angrily; he was more and more hurried in his replies to imaginary opponents, and his face grew more and more excited and worried.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 7
14  "Yes, papa," answered Seryozha, acting the part of the imaginary boy.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 27
15  To be honest, between old friends, I think your troubles are mostly imaginary.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence:
1  Although the main characters in the novel are so true to life, they are imaginary.
2  Some troubles are imaginary, but the suffering they cause is real.
3  One of the most common symptoms of schizophrenia is hearing imaginary voices.
4  He formulated the concept of imaginary time.
5  Assuring the patient that she has a real and not imaginary problem is the first step.
6  Real ethnic crimes have begun to replace imaginary ones.
7  My little daughter has an imaginary friend.
8  Any of the imaginary lines representing degrees of latitude that encircle the earth parallel to the plane of the equator.
9  This combined novel and treatise traces the history of an imaginary French fortress from the 4th Century B.C. through the Napoleonic Wars.
10  I write fantasy in imaginary worlds, but my settings are historically based.
11  Fed up with this imperfect universe, Don would have liked to run off to Shangri-la or some other imaginary utopia.