Example sentences for: fictitious

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

  • (Most problematic: A fictitious manservant, supposed to be a sort of African-American Everyman, contemplates assassinating Wallace.)

  • Contrary to Seth Stevenson's "Signs and Wonders," credit for the first High-Five should go to Mel Brooks, director of the 1968 classic The Producers . Actually, Brooks did not execute the maneuver, but directed Dick Shawn, as a flowery actor in the title role of the fictitious Broadway play Springtime for Hitler , to complete the first High-Five with another actor who was giving a Nazi salute, to which Shawn responded, "Heil, Baby!"

  • (For a fictitious portrait of a quintessential GOP moderate, click .)

  • Joseph Henry Jackson’s work traces the history of the legend, claiming all the information came from the John Rollin Ridge version and that he should be credited with starting the “fictitious” legend.

  • The law recognizes two basic kinds of trademark, though it allows for a measure of degree in their definition: a “strong trademark” is one used only in a fictitious or fanciful manner, while a “weak trademark” is a meaningful word in common usage that doubles as a suggestive or descriptive trademark.


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