Example sentences for: fiction

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

  • His surrealistic short fiction was about as avant-garde as you could get on the mass market in those days.

  • It has been suggested that SF include only those stories which would be invalidated without their scientific content; that fiction which concerns science, scientists, and the impact of science on humans; that which explores alternate existences (whether future, extraterrestrial, or only in characters' minds) based on facts and logical progression via scientific method.

  • Robert Wise's 1963 original, based on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House , is overrated, but it manages to evoke the eeriest aspect of Jackson's fiction: the way the characters' neuroses acquire an inexorable life of their own and threaten to eat them alive.

  • My wife, who is a schoolteacher, has developed an insatiable appetite for young-adult historical fiction quite independent of the professional requirements of keeping up with what her students are reading, finding new texts to assign, and so forth.

  • Ellison was clearly trying to learn how to write fiction.


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