Derek put his arms around an imaginary figure and bounced it up and down.

"It's because he is an imaginary figure," he said knowingly, and I felt the fish bone of disappointment caught in my throat.

"What does being an imaginary figure mean?"

Men would always seize whatever power came within their grasp, even if they had to invoke some imaginary figure to justify it.

Without an instant's hesitation, he stabbed shots at an imaginary figure farther away.

In his later life the imaginary figures of childhood still obtained, emotionally I mean.

Jack glanced over, but the man was speaking to the purely imaginary figure before him, his tone turning harsh.

That £10m mentioned in the press is the imaginary figure floated by Llambias.

He wasn't even bothered because the imaginary figure had seemingly glided toward the door that led from shipping room to loading platform.

Beatriz Rodriguez looked fine but needed a longer line as the antihero's imaginary mother-sweetheart figure.