Used in a Sentence

imagining

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for imagining.

Editorial note

Let's start with imagining how to make such a world come about.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of imagining gathered in one view.

noun

Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for imagining.

noun

Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.

Example sentences

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Let's start with imagining how to make such a world come about.

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Personally, I have a hard time imagining passing my child on to day care at the age of 4 months.

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Until we have some idea of how to get there, there isn't much point in imagining what it would be like.

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Sure we feel nice imagining there's accountability, but in some professions it's only an illusion.

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I'm having a hard time imagining how it would cost $50,000 to export data.

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I'm really having a hard time imagining you're concerned about equality given the username.

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I remember having similar trouble imagining why a PC would need a sound card.

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It seems like a solution to a problem I'm having trouble even imagining.

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Some Tibetan Buddhist monks practice a type of mindfulness that consists of imagining bits and pieces of their bodies are being slowly dissolved or devoured, until nothing is left.

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I'm imagining a nightmare scenario where, by some vauge unwritten and immature consensus mechanism, we rationalize even a slight amount of censorship as being OK.

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GS will play a roll in this I'm imagining.

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(Or about 12^5.5 times harder, if you prefer.) I have trouble imagining where you'd even start....

Quote examples

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I think it is in part a fantastic re-imagining of Delaney's own early years as recounted more prosodically in "Heavenly Breakfast"[2].

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"You're doomed!" I'm imagining these clowns giving each other high-fives and teabagging their laptop as a traffic pile-up ensues.

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If we're imagining that we don't know if there is a murder, then someone doing that isn't all that damnning, since hey, "it" could be any silly little thing?

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Imagining “themselves performing this act, with as much sensory detail as possible” has been a standard and essential part of rehearsing or “future-pacing” any behavioral change." A quick search shows that behavior rehearsal was part of non-NLP since at least the early 1970s.

Proper noun examples

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Imagining that all these robots are linked, or at least synchronise every couple of days, they would learn a lot faster than a human.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use imagining in a sentence?

Let's start with imagining how to make such a world come about.

What does imagining mean?

Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.

What part of speech is imagining?

imagining is commonly used as noun.