Example Sentences

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It is generally awarded for work in a foreign country - James Bond, who Craig plays in the film franchise, was fictionally given the same honour.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2021

That's going to be fun going forward, because you've had 20 years of negligence in a medical examiner system, like I have fictionally in this particular scenario.

From Salon • Dec. 22, 2021

The home fictionally known as 1428 Elm St., which served as the façade for the protagonist’s house in Wes Craven’s 1984 classic “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” has come to market for $3.25 million.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2021

The trolley problem is a decades-old moral dilemma where someone must fictionally decide whether to steer a trolley toward one person to save a larger group of people.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2021

Her final utterance was in a tone fictionally describable as “tinged by the bitterness of despair.”

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel