Sentence examples for imaginary one from inspiring English sources

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.

Not that I have one, mind you, but on the back of my imaginary one.

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.

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.

So he produced this suspenseful score for an imaginary one.

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.

The only men admitted are imaginary ones with one too many shirt buttons undone.

Created in the 1960s by Michel Foucault to define areas we have overlooked, the concept describes both real spaces simulating imaginary ones, and the areas in which society hides those living on its margins and considered deviants.

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".

Maps show real things, not imaginary ones.