Example Sentences

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So where did Samuel draw the line with how much to stick to history and how much to fictionalise?

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2021

The decision not to entirely fictionalise the island was deliberate: it isn’t renamed, and there is a reference to its former owner, Frederick Charrington, a 19th-century social reformer who created a community for recovering alcoholics.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2020

“But I know very few writers who don’t talk about themselves – they just fictionalise it more. The controversy around her can be a bit hysterical.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2018

So why do we fictionalise robots in our own image and then have them betray us?

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2015

Does every travel writer do that – embellish, dramatise, even fictionalise?

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2012