IMAGINATIVE in a Sentence
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326 example sentences for IMAGINATIVE, such as:
1. But she was always imagining that.
2. He is always imagining dangers that don't exist.
3. This paper shows us an imaginative use of material.
4. But I feel sure that you are again imagining that I am joking.
5. You need to be more flexible and imaginative in your approach.
2. He is always imagining dangers that don't exist.
3. This paper shows us an imaginative use of material.
4. But I feel sure that you are again imagining that I am joking.
5. You need to be more flexible and imaginative in your approach.
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Meanings and Examples of IMAGINATIVE
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imaginative
a. (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 I have often attributed my attachment to, my passionate enthusiasm for, the dangerous mysteries of ocean to that production of the most imaginative of modern poets.
2 To a man possessed of the higher imaginative powers, the objection to legal studies is the amount of detail which they involve.
3 When a man tells me anything about imaginative qualities, I always tell that man, whoever he is, that I know what he means.
4 The first instinct of an imaginative stranger might have been to suppose it the person of one of the Celts who built the barrow, so far had all of modern date withdrawn from the scene.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
5 I believe that Gaston Cleric narrowly missed being a great poet, and I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift.
6 But I feel sure that you are again imagining that I am joking.
7 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.
8 "It may be treachery," said Prince Andrew, vividly imagining the gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, and the glory that awaited him.
9 Now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly discipline and zeal in the service.
10 said the huntsman, pointing to his dagger and probably imagining himself still speaking to his foe.
11 But she was always imagining that.
12 And imagining that in this direction something important which he had long awaited was drawing near, he strolled about watching and listening to conversations, but nowhere finding any confirmation of the ideas that occupied him.
13 He was continually imagining that a cannon ball was flying toward him with a terrific whizz, and then he shuddered and sat up.
14 This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep--and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining.
15 We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase.
Example Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
1 The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
2 You need to be more flexible and imaginative in your approach.
3 You'll need to be a little more imaginative if you want to hold their attention.
4 The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imagination.
5 This paper shows us an imaginative use of material.
6 We peer in at ten infants through the glass walls of a new-born nursery, imagining the bright futures ahead in the 80 years of life they can expect.
7 He never did anything wrong without imagining how the look on his mother's face would reproach him afterwards.
8 Many people get a vicarious thrill at the movies by imagining they are the characters on the screen.
9 He is always imagining dangers that don't exist.
10 There's a growing mood of transatlantic tension, both real and imagined; a feeling that European capitals and Washington no longer view the world in quite the same way.
11 "That's how it was conceived, really. For reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it, Hermione ended up with Ron."
12 When you see famous people at close quarters, they always appear much smaller than you imagined them.
13 You are obviously tired and I imagine that nothing would make you admit it.
14 It is difficult to imagine how the North and South could ever agree on a formula to unify the divided peninsula.
15 If a friend tells a fault, imagine always that he has not told the whole.