How to Use fabricate in a Sentence

fabricate

verb
  • Only the largest parts were fabricated at the factory.
  • Their plan is to fabricate the house out of synthetic materials.
  • She was accused of fabricating data.
  • The story was later found to be fully fabricated, and Cooke was forced to return her award.
    Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The girl’s mother was suspicious of the story and told police two days later that the girl admitted to fabricating it.
    cleveland, 27 Feb. 2020
  • To combat the shortage of masks, some people are fabricating masks out of drapes, bra straps, shower curtains, and a number of other household goods.
    Spencer Neale, Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2020
  • This entire diorama, including the rocks and trees, was fabricated and comes apart in sections for transportation.
    Ralph P. Stuart, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Here is the list of the celebrities whose names and likenesses were most frequently fabricated this year for online scams — all without their permission.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024
  • It’s fabricated beautifully, the banquettes are raised, there are no tables in the middle—the bar’s in the middle—and everyone’s looking out.
    Alex French, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Tackett said the design for the plastic face shield is loaded into the 3D printer which then separately fabricates the upper and lower part of the frame.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 27 Mar. 2020
  • So all of that stuff, the bedroom and the kitchen, all that is fabricated.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
  • False and fabricated speeches at the UN no longer make the cut.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The person would have to source some false teeth, then fabricate the letter and send it all the way from Spain.
    Matt Reynolds, Wired, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Artists will have one year to plan and fabricate works that will be unveiled in the summer of 2023.
    Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • To fabricate the tiny endoscope, the team 3D-printed the lenses, which are too small to see with the naked eye.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2020
  • Each suit took more than two weeks to fabricate in the Budapest work room.
    Carole Horst, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The key is to fabricate accurate molds; then just mix up a batch of concrete and pour.
    David Agrell and Eric Weil, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2020
  • Three cars were fabricated from scratch while the fourth was made from an ex P3 chassis.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
  • But here’s the thing: his chronic compulsion to fabricate is alive and well.
    Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Many of his recent films will be on view, and the show has given him the chance to fabricate new works that he’s been thinking about for years.
    Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • But the company that fabricated the fake food didn’t get the order quite right.
    Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Maybe fabricate a road trip despite what the schedule says.
    Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Skiing through the slush with no cares and no worries except the desire to fabricate danger to feel more alive.
    Washington Post, 9 May 2022
  • At both ends, most of the suspension pieces are fabricated from aluminum to save weight.
    Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 28 July 2023
  • Today there are many more ways to fabricate a song, and fewer ways to tell the difference between us and the robots.
    C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 6 May 2024
  • Cindy denies the claim and says Olin fabricated the story.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Cut a matching rabbet on one end of each table support to fabricate a half-lap joint [5].
    Ted Kilcommons, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2021
  • The main house has distressed hickory wood floors that took four months to fabricate and lay, the Greens said, as well as Venetian plaster walls.
    Libertina Brandt, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
  • In an era of both real and fabricated stories, authenticity is paramount, and people’s ability to detect inauthenticity is sharper than ever.
    Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • But the twist of Harley being yet another leech off Arthur, plus fabricating her own traumatic backstory just to fetishize Arthur’s mental illness, was a disservice to the lore of Harley herself.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024

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