Sentence examples for made-up figures from inspiring English sources

Clegg said the Conservatives would not be able to deliver their plans saying they were based on "kooky, made-up figures".

Living among artists, actors and dancers in Denmark's capital, Gerda was inspired by the idea of performance and painted stylised, long-limbed, made-up figures who looked active rather than passive, as if challenging the viewer.

This is clearly a made-up figure.

McCoy himself is the novel's greatest accomplishment: a made-up figure, a fiction and, for all that, completely real.

I used a made-up name for myself, Salvatore.

Legend, who wears his made-up name lightly, has commandeered a sector where personality is secondary to the song, and the song looks back to sunny retro uplands in which romance is exalted, and politics don't figure.

Greece, which adopted the euro in 2001, subsequently admitted that it had done so with made-up budgetary figures.

While this is a neat idea for a plotline and a lovely little homage to H.G Wells casual viewers might assume the numbers involved were just made-up joke figures.

The main illustration showed a heavily made-up, muscular figure in a short dress with a stubbly chin and a flower behind her ear.

As a result, the reporters determined that only 17% of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced by the ATF to the U.S. Now, because President Obama used the made-up 90% figure to push political positions -- he was using the statistic to argue that the U.S. needs more gun-control laws -- it's difficult not to sniff politics in what happened next.

The writer Craig Brown, famed for his entries from the made-up diaries of such figures as Karl Lagerfeld ("Don't eat. Eating is so seventies, and this is today"), was standing near the bar.