Sentence examples for an imaginary one from inspiring English sources

Like other disappointed Puritans, Milton might easily have sailed for the literal New World, but he instead settled for an imaginary one that was to exert a strong influence on America's Founding Fathers.

On "The Simpsons," smarty-pants Lisa was confounded by an imaginary one that featured countless buttons covered in complicated-looking characters.

So he produced this suspenseful score for an imaginary one.

In its stillness and emptiness it was never a real place but an imaginary one.

So he composed this turbulent and fractious music for an imaginary one.

Participating in the local economies that keep these farms alive is a real virtue, not an imaginary one.

These guys have gone nuts.' " While riding horses with friends on his ranch, Mr. Letterman said he would riff about an imaginary one-million-acre estate in Manitoba called the "Triple-XL," established by "a guy who had made lots of money in nonslip rubber place mats he sold to Friendly's".

And, as Euler's successor, Carl Friedrich Gauss, was to discover, if you plot real numbers on one axis of a graph and imaginary ones on the other, you create a plane that represents both sorts of numbers.

He said later that he built an imaginary house, one nail and one tile at a time, as an exercise to stay sane.

The uniform ideas of acceptability are either repugnant, tiresome, or ridiculous: when a man at a restaurant is having a loud conversation on a bluetooth headset, David starts up an equally verbose (if imaginary) one, to highlight the essential crumminess of a deeply atomised society.

Whether the lurid cast of characters in the lyrics is real or imaginary – one is a "psycho" on medication, another lands "in a cell with grey pants and bruises" and then there's the "sneaky freak" who spies on her husband – doesn't matter.