How to Use fiction in a Sentence

fiction

noun

• She believes the fiction that crime rates are up.
• Our reviewers’ picks for this month celebrate fiction set around the world.
  — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2022
• Miranda Lambert told stories — fact as well as fiction — inspired by her travels.
  — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2022
• Duras, who died in 1996, used fiction as a film over her novels, but many of them were autobiographical.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• The Best Books of 2022 Read our reviews of the year’s notable new fiction and nonfiction.
  — The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• Upham enjoys teaching cycling classes, running, reading fiction, and making playlists.
  — Becky Upham, EverydayHealth.com, 18 Oct. 2024
• Her films pay great attention to detail, are steeped in a joyous cinephilia, and feature a hybridisation of fiction and reality.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
• The Terraformers, refreshingly, is the opposite of the dystopian, we’re-all-doomed chiller that’s become so common in climate fiction.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
• Their adaptation to new surroundings — being teased for their skinny tails and clumsy arms, getting in fights and making new friends — gives the movie the buoyant, high-spirited sincerity of young-adult fiction.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• It’s no longer enough for fiction to fill the silences.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• Like that book, this one plays loose with the line between fact and fiction.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Her valiant fight against the evil that men do makes for a winning blend of fact and fiction.
  — Malcolm Forbes, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2024
• For the first time, two novels are sharing the Pulitzer Prize for best fiction book.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 10 May 2023
• Page Six got intel from a source close to the couple, who called out the breakup talk as fiction.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 19 July 2023
• The rest of the season was just as zany, with Molitor and Higuera's streaks back-to-back The arc of the season sounds like a work of fiction.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
• Colleen Hoover, an author of young adult and adult fiction, has become a huge name thanks to the app.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
• While the series is inspired by the father and son, the end result is a mic of truth and fiction.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• The result is a true-life tale of fame and friendship stranger (and funnier) than fiction.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
• But this time, with the power of fiction, Reichl fulfilled the chef’s wish from 1990.
  — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2024
• This required both sides to maintain the fiction that the person on the porch had not been observed.
  — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
• The location in his fiction had shifted as well, to the desert Southwest.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• But how much of Chippendales is fact and how much is fiction?
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 3 Jan. 2023
• Fact and fiction merge against a backdrop of winter’s chill.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 17 July 2024
• The Best Books of 2023 Read our reviews of the year’s notable new fiction and nonfiction.
  — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• This won't be the first time Starfleet Academy has been explored in works of Star Trek fiction, of course.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
• To what end would an author valorize fact inside of a work of fiction?
  — Jennifer Krasinski, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
• Truth be told, the events that led to its recovery seemed stranger than any scammer’s fiction.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• For Greg [who lives in Missouri and asked to remain anonymous for the story], this isn't fiction.
  — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 2 Feb. 2024
• The authors of these books in many cases spent years collecting details to bring their characters to life on the page to a degree typically reserved for fiction.
  — Jared Sullivan, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2024
• Liar, liar, world on fire. TV writer Elisabeth Finch didn’t confine her imaginative fiction to her scripts.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024