Example sentences for: fictional

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

  • Set in the fictional Cuyama (clearly Guyana), Shiva's A Hot Country is a West Indian masterpiece, even though islands characterize the community and Guyana (formerly BG, or British Guyana) is mainland.

  • These days, they find room for their papers in the Palais de Justice and the nearby Préfecture de Police, haunt of those fictional detectives, Inspectors Maigret and Clouseau.

  • The fictional nonprofit research laboratory La Honda provides an opportunity to work with the best people in the field, designing products for other companies to sell.

  • Fight Club , a movie about a fictional organization of men who strip down and beat each other to pulp, has provoked more than its share of media hand-wringing, particularly diatribes about Hollywood's infatuation with violence and Faludi-esque ruminations about the emasculated American male.

  • 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.


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