Sentence examples for fictitious being from inspiring English sources

In Europe, where much of the vampire folklore originates, the vampire is usually considered a fictitious being, although many communities may have embraced the revenant for economic purposes.

The film, based on a novel by Tom Rob Smith and entirely fictitious, is about a child serial killer.

The fact that the fourteen biographies were fictitious was not generally known until thirty years after the publication of the Cyclopedia.

But Pegasus is a fictitious object; and it seems that to call an object fictitious is just to say that it does not exist.

A variable that is not fictitious is referred to as essential.

Errors in the batch number fields were due to fictitious data being entered into free-text fields on the NJR.

For this purpose, an illustrative project with fictitious data is assumed to be given.

Submitting incorrect or false information or using a fictitious name is considered fraud.

Fictitious trades were created and executed, and profits (invariably) were entered into fictitious accounts.

The fictitious work is based, said Doherty, on real events.

The fictitious sales were "relatively small," a spokeswoman, Karen S. Lynn, said.