Sentence examples for were illusory from inspiring English sources

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were illusory

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Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal

  • Enron's profits were all illusory.

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Yet there were illusory moments.

These were illusory — but, more important, irrelevant.

Juncker gently explained that all these expectations were illusory.

Mrs. Polinsky and other Democrats contended that the budget cuts were illusory.

Kennedy's biographer, Theodore C. Sorenson, said Kennedy always maintained that mandates were illusory.

He said many of the promises of greater national sovereignty outside the EU were illusory.

All those trappings of longevity, the bronze doors and marble pulpit and stained glass, were illusory.

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Quick solutions are illusory.

The casualness is illusory.

This distinction is illusory.

Civilizations are illusory.

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