Example sentences for: fiction

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

  • But it is in those poems--"Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction" and "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"--that his language is driest, his images dullest.

  • 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.

  • Like Jorge Luis Borges, he flirts with science fiction premises and invents antique literary texts and then analyzes them.

  • In "Smut Cut," the reviews section, you will find pieces like Shalit's; "Roles" features essays on sex, gender, and relationships; "Pedantry" presents pieces by public figures such as former Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders on favorite subjects (take a guess); "Ex Libris" comprises "favorite erotic passages from our writers' libraries"; "Skin" is photos of flesh; "Threads" is occasionally interactive erotic fiction; and "The Bar" is a yet-to-be-launched chat area.

  • It combines the music video syntax of Trainspotting with the jokey nihilist bloodletting of Pulp Fiction . You're supposed to root for the hapless amateur crooks over the platoons of murderous professional ones, and to watch as, with farcical precision, the bad guys end up accidentally blowing one another away.


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