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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:

Despite the cultural leap that being an airplane passenger requires--as an American, I have, after all, spent nearly four decades constructing an elaborate illusion of how I control my life--I continue to fly.
Is it an illusion that they seem to be putting on weight?
Most of that trade surplus, as we've seen, is a statistical illusion.
And he goes on to deride macroeconomics for its "illusion that it could make the whole system run smoothly almost regardless of how the economy's underlying sectors functioned.
The Financial Times (which led Monday with the news that BP Amoco, the United Kingdom's largest company, was about to take over Atlantic Richfield of the United States in an all-stock deal worth $25 billion) carried a front-page headline "America's illusions crash with downed stealth" and said that TV images of the wreckage have shattered "the illusion enjoyed by Americans for years that the US military's technologically superlative weaponry meant it could destroy unseen enemies with little or no danger to American life or property."