Real echoes, those, but they stood for imaginary ones.
He swings a bat off to the side, hitting imaginary long ones.
The man has enough real troubles without you dumping your imaginary ones on him.
I used to take imaginary ones to bed with me as a child.
The imaginary ones have a feverish, insubstantial feel to them.
In some of her fiction books, Cutler mixes real people and events with imaginary ones.
And the real murders he commits are mirrored by imaginary ones.
Her thoughts now were happy ones - warm, imaginary ones.
The imaginary ones might have a different number of legs or eyes, some with tails, others without.
Before the child is born, the women "kill" the imaginary ones.