Example sentences for: make-believe

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

  • When uttered in circumstances where taboo language would seem either gratuitous or otherwise inappropriate, rude words are not only equally out of place in the world of make-believe as in the real world but, worse, they interfere (in both) with the message.

  • In light of the report, the lead editorial at the Post calls the Russian/China/France anti-sanction stance, "make-believe."

  • But used with words with unfavorable connotations, it assumes a pernicious meaning of make-believe, for example, “Is that still his story?”

  • Also try El Galeón, in a make-believe pirate ship that sets sail from under Havana’s La Cabaña fortress.

  • It obscures the fact that Levinthal's territory in the Western series is much the same as in "Hitler Moves East," a liminal realm of fantasy where the most successful images--like that rearing horse, or a man hanging from a noose on a stunted tree--toe the line between real and make-believe.


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