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.
  • 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
  • The story was later found to be fully fabricated, and Cooke was forced to return her award.
    Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 3 Mar. 2020
  • For right now, though, while the telescope is being fabricated, so, too, is its massive dome.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Benko hopes to fabricate a replica marquee awning and – pending approval from the city of The Dalles – install the neon signs on the outside of his museum.
    oregonlive, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Dry lips, acne and self-harm scars on her upper arms were all fabricated.
    Lexi Carson, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • The set design was entirely fabricated for the film in an old-school studio style, in which the background and sky are all hand painted.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
  • One obvious tip-off: The chatbots fabricated quotes that were not in the novels assigned in class.
    Natasha Singer, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Seen from the street, the museum’s façade is half glass and half concrete, a gray-black precast fabricated in Quebec.
    Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • One bogus headline that appears to be from The Atlantic was viewed more than 3 million times on X, with no label identifying it as fabricated.
    Erielle Delzer, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • South Korea’s military has said its refusal to answer questions on the drones is because addressing what the North has alleged would be to get drawn into a tactic by Pyongyang to fabricate excuses for provocations.
    Reuters, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2024

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