Everyone laughed loudly at Lord Blayney's folly in imagining that so obviously incompetent an animal could run against the beautiful little racer Sancho; only Lord Blayney himself seemed stupidly surprised at his own failure.
Having achieved deeds so worthy of a polished nation, and imagining no more mischief could be done, they quitted the scene of their despoliation with shouts of victory.
But as soon as Sally had such an imagining she knew that it was an impossibility for her.
She was surprised at Gaga's simplicity in imagining that any girl valued or could possibly value such ceaseless demonstrative action, such ugly hard little parrot-like caresses.
His tongue must have been a little too long or something of that sort, for he continually lisped, and seemed to be very proud of it, imagining that it greatly added to his dignity.
But I feel sure that you are again imagining that I am joking.
This was so obvious a measure that we could not help imagining reasons which might have prevented them from pursuing it.
Dodo had got quite serious and absently dipped the last two or three strawberries into her tea-cup, imagining apparently that it contained cream.
From habit she awoke early, and tried to cajole herself into imagining how delicious it was to stop in bed, instead of getting up and going down to her business-room.
Here Ulla grew so earnest in imagining her meeting with Henrica, still fancying her the dependent little creature she had been on earth, that she was impatient to be gone.
Hazel crossed her slender wrists and sat looking at them, imaginingthe bonds.
She was as incapable as he of imagining the state of nerves that could lead, in Louise, to such an outburst.
Probably the entire incident was a wildimagining of the tulips.
Since he lived six times as many working-days as Sundays, Oak's appearance in his old clothes was most peculiarly his own -- the mental picture formed by his neighbours in imagining him being always dressed in that way.
On the present occasion I was soon lost in ruminations on the past, and in imagining events for the future.
They had set themselves up as theoreticians, and likewise as optimists, without looking at the things, or else imagining the them as they wished to have them.
How he imagines a general situation by selecting a particular case, imagining the invisible interior by deducting from the visible exterior.
I bet you're imagining that I am trying to get round you by flattery.
They would not think of the past; they shrank from imagining the future.
And it's no good, father, you imagininganything else.
But he had no sooner reached the staircase than he thought of his son returning drunk, and he stopped at each step, imagining a thousand dangers that might arise if Melchior were allowed to return alone.
Often in their presence I catch myself imagining their mutual lives and seeing vaguely the graces that each brings to each.
In imagining a Japanese hotel, good reader, please dismiss all architectural ideas derived from the Continental or the Fifth Avenue.
This, together with the Khan’s marked attention to the young man, appeared rather to disconcert the Jemadar, who regarded the new comer with some suspicion, and Kasim could not help imagining with some dislike.
I happened, in my eagerness, to jar the door; the lady, imagining some one was coming, rose suddenly and left the room.
She thrust the casket from her in alarm, and retreated a few steps, imagining she smelt the odor of some deadly perfume.
I heard music in the garden, and at an unseasonable time of night; and I stole softly out of my bed, as imagining it might be he.
Compassing and imagining the death of the king; 2.
Thus imagining the business accomplished, she for a time bade defiance to her husband, whose taste for the softer sex having subsided from some unaccountable cause, afforded Miss Chudleigh a cessation of inquietude.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imagining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
