VISIONARY in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for VISIONARY, such as:

1. The ideas of a visionary may seem impractical to us.
2. Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort a visionary.
3. It was in vain that he attempted to dazzle her with the prospect of a visionary throne.
4. I made that wild escape into something visionary, and have slowly found out how wild it was.
5. The lack of sleep and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of a visionary.

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visionary
 a.  produced by imagination; characterized by vision or foresight; imaginary; idealistic
Classic Sentence:
1  I made that wild escape into something visionary, and have slowly found out how wild it was.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
2  It was in vain that he attempted to dazzle her with the prospect of a visionary throne.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  Yet in some curious way it was a visionary experience: it had hit her in the middle of the body.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  The wallowing in private emotion, the utter abasement of his manly self, seemed to lend him a second nature, cold, almost visionary, business-clever.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort a visionary.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
6  There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in Dante.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
7  The lack of sleep and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of a visionary.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION
8  Her sight was disturbed, so that she saw objects multiplied, and grasped at visionary teacups and wineglasses instead of the realities; her hearing was greatly impaired; her memory also; and her speech was unintelligible.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI
9  So powerful were these visionary considerations in my boyish mind, that I seem, according to my present way of thinking, to have left school without natural regret.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
10  My good friend," said Valentine, "I should take you for a visionary, and should tremble for your reason, if I were always to hear you talk in a strain similar to this.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 57. In the Lucerne Patch.
11  But, however, I shall so far do justice to this part of the Academy, as to acknowledge that all of them were not so visionary.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI.
12  But as in an hour, this river of dreams and wild romance has emerged to a reality scarcely less visionary and splendid.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence:
1  And these dreams weigh on your spirits now, Jane, when I am close to you? Little nervous subject! Forget visionary woe, and think only of real happiness! You say you love me, Janet: yes -- I will not forget that; and you cannot deny it.
2  "Because I was so heavily involved in the implementation side of the work, becoming a visionary is a very different role for me," he says.
3  The ideas of a visionary may seem impractical to us.