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Example sentences for: illusion

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

Both ESPN and CNBC offer an infinite supply of statistics that give the viewer the illusion of deeper understanding.
This was, as Berman readily concedes, an illusion.
Lawyers will understand that the author is inveighing against precedent only as a false pretense for fake precision, but an innocent layman straying into these pages might well take it from the broad-gauged blasts that the whole doctrine of precedent is a grand illusion, a sort of pseudo-science like astrology, in which lawyers and judges count the angels dancing on the point of a needle:
The same is true of heroin consumption, which may readily develop into a condition of dependency in which the addict may enjoy the illusion of freely choosing not a hole bored in his ear but rather numerous telltale holes bored in his veins.
Under pressure from environmentalists, detergent manufacturers simply removed the fillers with which they'd been bulking up detergents to give an illusion of value.