Example Sentences

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Pathos not being much of a dramatic engine, Wright works very hard, if fictionally, to crank up the stakes.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

Bestselling author Rebecca Makkai has plunged down the true-crime rabbit hole — fictionally, that is.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023

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

He gave himself a boyhood as a jockey and also enlisted fictionally in the Spanish American war.

From The Boy Grew Older by Broun, Heywood