Example Sentences

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Their imaginations seem to have been fed on solely on “Starship Troopers” and little else except maybe some Tolkien.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

For the past year, defense and artificial intelligence have captured investors’ imaginations, leaving green energy out in the cold.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

"We let our imaginations fly in a way that hopefully old and new fans will be able to enjoy."

From BBC • May 7, 2026

But it was a chance to capture the imaginations of new generations of future space explorers, while also calling back to the one-giant-step-for-mankind sense of awed enormity that characterized the 20th-century Space Race.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

Scholastic philosophers had fertile imaginations and had often imagined looking at the Earth from far away, even from the stars; but they had not imagined that the Earth would shine like the brightest stars.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton