Example sentences for: fictional

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

  • Paradise focuses on the fictional town of Ruby, Okla., founded by blacks who came West to escape the horrors of Reconstruction.

  • Garth Brooks shocks the world by putting out a pop album under the fictional persona of Chris Gaines, giving himself a radical makeover complete with soul patch, eye makeup and, most startling of all, no cowboy hat: "[H]e looks a bit like Trent Reznor crossed with a guy who eats a lot of cheese steaks" (Christopher John Farley, Time ). The music, though, is anything but shocking.

  • "A letter in which Beatrix Potter reveals that one of her best-loved fictional creations, Squirrel Nutkin, was based on a pet squirrel with behavioural problems is expected to fetch up to £15,000 at auction," reports Kathy Marks.

  • In The Good Life, not a long book, Cabeza de Baca creates a fictional family, the Turrietas, and uses their story to narrate the rituals, customs, food, and culture of New Mexico.

  • These girls are not, perhaps, altogether fictional; Minor would later tell people that he began to entertain lascivious thoughts about the time he was thirteen.


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