Example sentences for: fictions

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

  • It is designed to trounce, once and for all, the fictions promulgated by Afrocentrists (they hold, among other things, that Jews ran the slave trade and that Egyptians were black).

  • As Jonathan Rauch reported in Slate a few months ago, the published memoirs of former Labor Secretary Robert Reich are full of self-aggrandizing fictions.

  • Pollak seizes on the same central fictions that Sutton does, and itemizes every other inaccuracy, or hint of one, that he is able to find--and he certainly looks hard.

  • One of the big differences between Royko on one hand and Mike Barnicle and similar truants on the other is that Royko himself didn't confuse his fictions with reality, and he didn't promote confusion about them.

  • It's one of the oldest erotic fantasies, recurrent in legends and fictions of many kinds, lending itself well to traditional ballet and cabaret--see Scheherezade , La Bayadère , Les Folies Bergères, the Copacabana.


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