How to Use imagination in a Sentence

imagination

noun
  • Is it just my imagination, or is it getting warm in here?
  • You can find a solution if you use a little imagination.
  • The author does not tell us what happens to the characters. We have to use our imagination.
  • He's a competent writer, but he lacks imagination.
  • Which sort of leaves your imagination to fill in the blanks.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2025
  • That was the kind of stuff that made our imaginations run wild.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The Penguin isn’t, by any stretch of the imagination, the worst new show of the fall season.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
  • So kind of left it up to our imagination as to what that’s gonna be.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Have fun with it and let your imagination go wild, with these tips to guide you.
    — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2023
  • Whether that means in real life, the Upside Down or the Void is left, for now, to the imagination.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The best of them, of course, sort of align with my imagination about the character.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Recruit the kids to help and let their imaginations run wild.
    — Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The Vesi tribe picks a side, and then one player lets her imagination run wild and run her right out of the game.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Raising a city from the sand needs a lot of imagination.
    — Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, CNN, 24 Apr. 2023
  • So use your imagination to be with your friend in their grief.
    — Julia Furlan, NPR, 5 Dec. 2024
  • But, the best part about the toy was how the doll could come to life by simply using your imagination.
    — Joyann Jeffrey, NBC News, 24 July 2023
  • In the almost-light of moonglow, imagination will fill in the blanks.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Let your imagination run wild, or scroll on and pick from one of our very best pear recipes.
    — Joe Sevier, Bon Appétit, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Sawyer is the first to notice, because the imagination of a kid is always in tune with things that go bump in the night.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • To give the new Stephen King, the latest self-help guide or the winner of any of the major book awards shows lack of imagination.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • One heard, and felt, only the weight of the works and the fecundity of Bach’s imagination.
    — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
  • And that kind of runaway imagination is so Rosie in Cross My Heart.
    — Megan Collins, People.com, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Fields isn’t playing well by any stretch of the imagination.
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • A lot of things in my life are beyond my imagination, and one of them is owning your own house.
    — Yxta Maya Murray, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2022
  • But first Scotts had to help lodge the idea of perfect turf in the American imagination.
    — Ted Steinberg, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The bottom line is, at the age of 68, which is not old by any stretch of the imagination, to re-learn how to walk at that stage is kind of difficult.
    — Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al, 26 Nov. 2022
  • So much of the film is just that kind of trying to give a sense of imagination around what Texas could be and what America could be.
    — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2023
  • In the years since, the props have grown beyond imagination, spilling out of the school and into his personal life.
    — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
  • However, the series never shows Proteus in action, leaving much of its menace to the imagination.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Regret is double suffering, while worry about the future is a misuse of imagination.
    — Chris Westfall, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025

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