FICTIONAL in a Sentence

Learn FICTIONAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

53 example sentences for FICTIONAL, such as:

1. This was my third work of fiction.
2. She kept the durable canon of American short fiction.
3. The two authors represent the opposite poles of fictional genius.
4. This anthology of science fiction was compiled by the late Isaac Asimov.
5. His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide.

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 Meanings and Examples of FICTIONAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fictional
 a.  imaginary; invented, as opposed to real
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  She encountered negro shanties turned into studios, with orange curtains and pots of mignonette; marble houses on New Hampshire Avenue, with butlers and limousines; and men who looked like fictional explorers and aviators.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  Of course, she had discovered that this was not altogether true but the pleasant fiction still stuck in her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  She was fond of pictures and flowers, and of sentimental fiction, and she could not help thinking that the possession of such tastes ennobled her desire for worldly advantages.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  She could not remember any fascinatingly wicked hero of fiction who chewed tobacco.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  The widow-robbing deacon of fiction can't help being hypocritical.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  They were carrying grapes, and women's-magazines, magazines with high-colored pictures and optimistic fiction.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  It was not at all the "artist's studio" of which, because of its persistence in fiction, she had dreamed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  "Well, she's yours by a fiction of law, then," said St. Clare, as he turned back into the parlor, and sat down to his paper.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  The note-book of a missionary, among the Canadian fugitives, contains truth stranger than fiction.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
10  There was a fiction that Mr. Wopsle "examined" the scholars once a quarter.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
11  But I began packing that same afternoon, and wildly packed up things that I knew I should want next morning, in a fiction that there was not a moment to be lost.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
12  Whereas I now found Barnard to be a disembodied spirit, or a fiction, and his inn the dingiest collection of shabby buildings ever squeezed together in a rank corner as a club for Tom-cats.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXI
13  There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIV
14  This was my third work of fiction.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
15  I had also with me a somewhat old, but capacious hand-bag in which I had intended to place the manuscript of a work of fiction that I had written during my few unoccupied hours.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In THIRD ACT
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Though not a professional cartographer, Tolkien was able to construct a map of his fictional world.
2  In 2005 Steven Spielberg released the highly debatable film, Munich, which told a fictional story, based on these true events.
3  Thompson is credited with developing a new form of fictional journalism, in which the writer made himself an essential element of the story.
4  The two authors represent the opposite poles of fictional genius.
5  Long before science fiction readers became aware of robots, at this book writer was presenting a story of automaton who could outperform men.
6  Science fiction in media is exponentially bigger as a market than science fiction in literary form.
7  This anthology of science fiction was compiled by the late Isaac Asimov.
8  In many science fiction films, alien invaders from outer space plan to destroy all terrestrial life.
9  She kept the durable canon of American short fiction.
10  The main hurdle is the competition and a shrinking market for short fiction.
11  And if you feel you must distill the history from the fiction, then you are welcome to do research of your own.
12  And unlike prior P. fiction, a detectable story thread develops out of "the restless progress" of the two scientists.
13  It can be very inhibiting for an author if he or she knows that what happens in fiction is going to be taken so seriously.
14  His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide.
15  I am a huge fan of fast, movie style fiction, so the slow lumbering is too much for me.