Sentence examples for probably fictional from inspiring English sources

(The incident is probably fictional, as no record, aside from Clemens's own memoir, exists).

In other words, the 12 users were probably fictional creations of the person who created McGooch2002.

One by Joachim Koester shows a man performing curious movements from a system of exercises that the probably fictional shaman Don Juan taught Carlos Castaneda.

I regularly get approached by investment bankers who either say they have a buyer (probably fictional) or that they want to invest in my business.

Arthur, the probably fictional war leader who was supposed to have stemmed the Saxon advance, could be located in the period, and enshrined as a great king, precisely because almost nothing was known about it.

Rutebeuf wrote verse in personal, even autobiographical mode (though the personal details are probably fictional) on a variety of subjects: his own pitiful circumstances, the quarrel between the University of Paris and the religious orders, the need to support the Crusades, his reverence for the Virgin, and his disgust at clerical corruption.

This sort of homage used to be called pastiche — and probably no fictional character has inspired more of it than Sherlock Holmes.

In the typescript, we learn that the book is "Le Secret de Raoul," by Catulle Sarrazin — probably a fictional stand-in for Huysmans's 1884 novel, "Against the Grain," which describes a gay encounter more explicitly than Wilde ever dared to do.

Seeking more inclusive bonds, Dr. Flannery suggested, they probably "invented a fictional common ancestor as a way to integrate the community".

It was a curious choice for "The Good Wife": an episode built around an obscure digital currency called Bitcoin that many of the show's viewers probably assumed was fictional.

The Mets could probably use a fictional hero to help them out these days, although not even Jason Bourne might be able to get them out of fourth place in the National League East.