Sentence examples for fictitious thing from inspiring English sources

From my experience, I have learned that there have been so many great leaps made for equality in the past few years, but within certain settings in the military being "gay" is still something of a fictitious thing.

We will only begin to confront the magnitude of our choice when and if we stop being distracted by small, let alone utterly fictitious, things.

"So, they start to create these almost fictitious things they can sell, whether it's a prime shelf [at the height a shopper is most likely to see] or a gondola end [the promotional buckets often found at the top of the aisle].

He also insists that: "fictitious things … or beings of reason, are not said to endure truly and properly, because they do not exist" (DM L 1.1).

It is a fictitious thing- the idea that you can actually control or manage a universal continuum.

Federal prosecutors charged both women with knowingly participating in the Ponzi scheme by, among other things, executing fictitious trades in clients' accounts to achieve predetermined investment returns set by Mr. Madoff.

The novel was a new thing — a long, fictitious, drama-filled work of prose — and its competitors were other prose genres: histories, biographies, political tracts, sermons, testimonies about travel to far-off lands.

Even if the crimes for which he went to prison were fictitious, he undoubtedly did bad things on his way to becoming Russia's richest man.

Here's what the King's staff made of it … There were a few things about the fictitious world of Holby City that made me want to transfer there immediately: highly attractive staff popping out from behind every locker/drug trolley; large, calm open spaces masquerading as wards; consultants' offices the size of squash courts rather than shared cupboards.

Ms. Potter shot "Rage" herself, as if on a cellphone, framing the actors against a green screen in a series of monologues featuring Jude Law (in drag as a female model named Minx); Judi Dench (as a fashion critic who smokes a spliff: as if!); Eddie Izzard John Leguizamo Steve Buscemimi; and the real-life catwalk star Lily Cole (in a turn as a fictitious model called, of all things, Lettuce Leaf).

He writes wittily, quoting a fictitious Tea Partier: "This whole voting thing that's going on Sunday is tantamount to a government takeover of Congress".