Sentence examples for fictional places from inspiring English sources

Fictional characters belong to the class of entities variously known as fictional entities or fictional objects or ficta, a class that includes not just animate objects of fiction (fictional persons, animals, monsters, and so on) but also inanimate objects of fiction such as fictional places (Anthony Trollope's cathedral town of Barchester and Tolkien's home of the elves, Rivendell, for example).

What about souvenirs of fictional places?

Not fictional places, like the Celestial City, Minas Tirith or Bikini Bottom, but real-world cities made better than real.

Instead, Mr. Morellet turned his longtime hobby — drawing maps of fictional places — into a full-time art form.

Rather, like the early 20th-century metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico, he creates spooky fictional places inhabited by bizarre outcasts.

For the next five decades, Mr. Updike's territory would largely be fictional places like Tarbox, Mass., and Rabbit Angstrom's Mt. Judge, Pa.

This time, however, it is not a fictional place.

What you get by seeing a fictional place given real-world roots is emotional authenticity.

Local myth claims the Crowdies stayed at 57 Mount Pleasant St, the fictional place name checked in Weather With You.

Two people I know who grew up in Clifton recalled a legend about a fictional place called Albino Village, populated by fair-skinned freaks.

I needed a fictional place to which I could escape and had neither the time nor the psychic energy for a larger project.