CHIMERICAL in a Sentence

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1. He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors.
2. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct depths.
3. Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own.
4. With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbe's plan chimerical.
5. As everyone expected, Ted's chimerical scheme to make a fortune by raising ermines in his back yard proved a dismal failure.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHIMERICAL
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chimerical
 a.  fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative
Classic Sentence:
1  It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
2  A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct depths.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
3  He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
4  Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
5  A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
6  His heart was, I knew, affected, and the constant anxiety in which he lived, however chimerical the cause of it might be, was evidently having a serious effect upon his health.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
7  With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbe's plan chimerical.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  As everyone expected, Ted's chimerical scheme to make a fortune by raising ermines in his back yard proved a dismal failure.