How to Use fictitious in a Sentence

fictitious

adjective

• The characters in the book are all fictitious.
• She gave a fictitious address on the application.
• When the car was towed, it was found to have a fictitious license plate.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 18 July 2023
• Boseman played the role of T'Challa, the king of the fictitious African nation Wakanda, in the film.
  — Frank Pallotta, CNN, 31 Aug. 2020
• The car the man was driving was also found to have fictitious plates.
  — cleveland, 13 May 2022
• The places and events were real; the couple was fictitious.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 18 Mar. 2021
• Life in the fictitious Midwestern town of Genoa City lives on.
  — Marc Berman, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• And for a lot of these fictitious folks, their love of certain things are a defining trait.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2022
• Even though that was a fictitious death, because that didn’t happen in that way, as part of the show that hit me.
  — Noah Hurowitz, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2021
• The problem, says Haya, is that the tax bill on the fictitious sale would often swamp the income pulled in from writing the call.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• The man was arrested, cited for the fictitious plates, and turned over to the BHPD.
  — cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
• Nargle is the latest in a long line of on-screen painters, both real and fictitious.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• She was advised about the headlight, and fictitious plates.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2022
• But Simsbury is not Grover’s Corner, the fictitious town where Wilder’s play is set.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2022
• Built in 1919, the Dutch Colonial-style home was a natural choice for the film, which takes place in the fictitious town of Springwood, Ohio.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• While the the house is located in the fictitious town of Haddonfield, Ill. in the movie, in real life it can be found in Pasadena, Calif.
  — Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
• The island is featured in every film as the fictitious Isla Nublar, where the dinosaurs were brought back to life, bred, and roamed free.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2023
• Smith, who has a rap sheet spanning two coasts, initially gave a fictitious name, the source said.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2022
• Then the letter that spelled out the $10 deal — signed by a fictitious Richard Marks — appeared in mailboxes.
  — Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 16 June 2024
• But what if the prospect isn’t spoofed or completely fictitious?
  — Itzik Kotler, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• It was then found that the car was not registered and bore a fictitious Missouri license plate.
  — cleveland, 8 Dec. 2022
• Sophia was living in the fictitious Shady Pines while the three younger women roomed together.
  — Jamie Gold, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• The fictitious person’s name: Ron Vara, which is an anagram of Navarro.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• His grandson was born Nikolai Gogol-Yanovsky and later chose to keep only the fictitious part of his name.
  — Gary Saul Morson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• Though the story is fictitious, the Limberlost is a real place.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 27 Feb. 2022
• The page was originally set up with a fictitious name, which allowed CID to use it.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• The town votes to disband the team, but Davis broadcasts fictitious games the next season with the Possums winning the state championship.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
• But the movie’s fictitious band, Hello Peril, was arguably the best reveal.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Dec. 2022
• Everyone read a fictitious story about a school that was running out of water because its local aquifer was drying up.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
• There is a chance that generative AI can make up fictitious facts, often referred to as AI hallucinations, see my coverage at the link here.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024