Example Sentences

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"We fictitiously are living in a world where we're told love and power are total opposites."

From Salon • Apr. 2, 2023

Which makes you wonder: Is it a restaurant created — even if fictitiously — by a person named Bojangle or a person named Bojangles?

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

Other public mishaps have happened fictitiously: Two television characters had heart attacks on its treadmills this year.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2022

It’s hard not to be reminded of Cleaver, the calamitously stupid slasher flick fictitiously produced by wannabe Hollywood player Chistopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos’ sixth season.

From The Guardian • Jan. 14, 2019

As an illustration, I remember once seeing the death of Professor Renwick fictitiously published in one of the daily journals, much to the sorrow and subsequently the indignation of a large circle of friends.

From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian