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Example sentences for: illusion

How can you use “illusion” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In Fargo , the kidnapping-turned-murder scheme never finds a satisfying second act, and the Coens create an illusion of climax only by having one thug kill another in a giant geyser of blood.
Slowly, via grunting and sign language, his furry new caretakers explain that Simon is a chimp, that he has been a chimp all along, and that his humanity has been an illusion.
But it does, perhaps because four decades of sanctimonious droning by Brinkley as a network news anchor and then as the founding pundit of This Week created the illusion that he was a principled journalist who couldn't be bought by a price-fixing corporation.
"It is the Chechens who are presently paying with their blood for this illusion.
There are no straight lines anywhere in the building — the graduated curves simply create the illusion of the vertical and horizontal.