imaginary creature

collocation in English

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imaginary
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmædʒ.ɪ.nər.i/us
/ɪˈmædʒ.ə.ner.i/
Something that is imaginary is created by and exists only in ...
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creature
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkriː.tʃər/us
/ˈkriː.tʃɚ/
any large or small living thing that can ...
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(Definition ofimaginaryandcreaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thisimaginarycreaturesometimes did harm to people and other times brought them riches.
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Even when a painter creates animaginarycreature, like a mermaid, the composite parts are drawn from real thingswomen and fish, in the case of a mermaid.
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Children with autism, it seems, are so concrete and literal that they are at a loss for what to do with imaginary creatures and nonsense words.
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Adorning the surface of the vessel are three primary decorative animal motifs, including fifteen imaginary creatures cast in relief along the sides.
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Imaginary creatures are also frequent, and the gargoyles alone display a great variety.
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Aimed at children aged 5-9, gamers can choose between 5 imaginary creatures.
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Troops range from spearmen to siege engines and mythological and imaginary creatures of varying strength.
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The comfort objects are described as being imaginary creatures with funny names because the utopian community where the book takes place in has no animals.
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Magic realist writing does not create imaginary creatures or places; instead, the writer tries to display the mysterious relationship between man and his circumstances.
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It features a mix of real and imaginary creatures.
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The dragons have many animal-like forms such as turtles, fish, and imaginary creatures, but they are most commonly depicted as snake-like with four legs.
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Real people seem fictional, imaginary creatures are among the most human characters, and absolutely nothing is as it seems at first glance.
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This lack of separation has often been associated with the assumption that people during this time believed in what the modern period classifies as nonexistent or imaginary creatures.
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