Sentence examples for must be fictional from inspiring English sources

Some balked at the images, believing they must be fictional, but scientists have verified most of the species depicted (with the exception, Heald wryly noted, of a mermaid).

Which means that if, within bounds of the novel, Luisa Rey exists only in a work of fiction written in Cavendish's time... then the first and second stories – including Ewing and Frobisher and Sixsmith too – must be fictional as well, as they are part of the same fictional construct as Luisa Rey".

Scientists, it is argued, often make claims about these sorts of entities (e.g., "the ideal pendulum has a period proportional to the square-root of its length") but they are nowhere to be found in the real world; hence they must be fictional entities.

They must also be "fictional"–not based on a real person.

To qualify for our list of the top-earning fictional characters, a property must be both "fictional"–not based on a real person and a "character" in the sense of having made its debut in a narrative story, be it a book, a film or even a videogame.

To qualify for our list, a property must be both "fictional"–not based on a real person and a "character" in the sense of having made their debut in a narrative story, be it a book, a film or even a videogame.

For a prose narrative to be fictional it must be written for a reader who knows it is untrue and yet treats it for a time as if it were true.

Now known to be fictional.

There must be something about fictional musicians that makes clever people's brains fall out.

It must be conceivable in this fictional world for a clever and brave investigator – the traditional police detective transposed into a nightmare situation – to find out the terrible truth that has been hidden from Germans as well as from the rest of the world.

To win his case, he must demonstrate that the identities of the real and fictional characters "must be so complete that the defamatory material" becomes a "plausible aspect" of the plaintiff's real life, Justice Shafer wrote, quoting case law.