Example Sentences

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But that's the issue, we have fictionalized a real-life relationship with our very own elusive figments of our imagination.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023

But its various figments and narratives had merged, as such poppycock tends to do, with an older and homegrown genre of German extremism.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2022

Serenades were played to sound like figments of the imagination.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2022

“The people who allowed this to happen are not ghosts or figments of our imaginations. They are real and should be made to face the law immediately.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021

"Have a little faith," she coaches herself, as the dark shape floats easily through the screen like smoke or clouds or figments of any sort.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez