Example sentences for: fictions

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

  • One explanation is that factoids such as the bondsman's portable urinal, which seem starkly implausible when presented alone, are less so when woven in with easier-to-believe fictions.

  • Bettelheim committed suicide in 1990, evidently having found life unbearable, despite (or because of) his fictions.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • It would be naïve to criticize a fiction writer for fabricating fictions; that's what a novelist does for a living.


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