How to Use fiction in a Sentence

fiction

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  • She believes the fiction that crime rates are up.
  • But the truth in fiction, there is a certain type of truth and that has to be there.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2024
  • It’s no longer enough for fiction to fill the silences.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Like that book, this one plays loose with the line between fact and fiction.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Her valiant fight against the evil that men do makes for a winning blend of fact and fiction.
    — Malcolm Forbes, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The effect is to remind us of the contrivance of fiction.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • For the first time, two novels are sharing the Pulitzer Prize for best fiction book.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 10 May 2023
  • Page Six got intel from a source close to the couple, who called out the breakup talk as fiction.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 19 July 2023
  • The rest of the season was just as zany, with Molitor and Higuera's streaks back-to-back The arc of the season sounds like a work of fiction.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Colleen Hoover, an author of young adult and adult fiction, has become a huge name thanks to the app.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
  • While the series is inspired by the father and son, the end result is a mic of truth and fiction.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The result is a true-life tale of fame and friendship stranger (and funnier) than fiction.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
  • But this time, with the power of fiction, Reichl fulfilled the chef’s wish from 1990.
    — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2024
  • Millet, by the way, says climate fiction isn’t a genre.
    — Donna Wares, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • This required both sides to maintain the fiction that the person on the porch had not been observed.
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The location in his fiction had shifted as well, to the desert Southwest.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 June 2023
  • But how much of Chippendales is fact and how much is fiction?
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Fact and fiction merge against a backdrop of winter’s chill.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 17 July 2024
  • The Best Books of 2022 Read our reviews of the year’s notable new fiction and nonfiction.
    — The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The Best Books of 2023 Read our reviews of the year’s notable new fiction and nonfiction.
    — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The group has produced six documentaries and one fiction feature film, the first to be shot in Ukraine since the start of the war.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 19 Aug. 2022
  • How does that relate to the purpose of fiction more broadly?
    — Katherine Hu, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
  • This won't be the first time Starfleet Academy has been explored in works of Star Trek fiction, of course.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
  • To what end would an author valorize fact inside of a work of fiction?
    — Jennifer Krasinski, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
  • Truth be told, the events that led to its recovery seemed stranger than any scammer’s fiction.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • For Greg [who lives in Missouri and asked to remain anonymous for the story], this isn't fiction.
    — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Science fiction has always been, at its heart, a pulp genre.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Whenever a beloved work of fiction makes the journey from page to the stage or screen, fans of the book invariably find fault with the result.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But lies demand constant feeding, and the work of maintaining her fiction must have been draining.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • However, Schulman said that a challenge to rolling out robots is that robots have mostly been portrayed in fiction as harmful to humans.
    — Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 12 Dec. 2024

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