How to Use illusory in a Sentence

illusory

adjective

• Helping to tackle these endemic issues is more worthwhile than the pursuit of an illusory pact that will leave the United States worse off than before.
  — Frederic Wehrey, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2024
• So what if my illusory sheep are the size of the White House?
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2020
• This is not a case where the right to vote is illusory.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 3 Nov. 2020
• Try not to build castles in the air when Mars unites with illusory Neptune in your sign on the 29th.
  — Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
• But the past two weeks have been a reminder that refuge can be illusory.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2020
• The illusory all-screen phone design is no longer just a dream.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 June 2021
• Now, a new study in Science shows that this idea is illusory.
  — Grace Huckins, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2022
• However illusory, however briefly, the weak can topple the strong, and the great chasms of the world seem to shrink.
  — Kanishk Tharoor, The Atlantic, 14 July 2018
• The concept of money might be the greatest illusory trick of all time.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2020
• The risks of banning such a text far outweigh the illusory rewards.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2021
• The felines chose the illusory square seven times, nearly as much as the eight times cats chose real squares.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 May 2021
• But in Les Misérables, Ly shows how illusory that sense was.
  — Time, 6 Feb. 2020
• With rates rising and the Fed’s pile of Treasurys being sold down, those gains might prove illusory.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 4 June 2018
• In that case, the 3-D world is illusory in the sense that different parts of it aren’t all that independent.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2018
• Some of it may be very good; some of it may be completely illusory or even harmful.
  — John Koetsier, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
• Empress > Temptress: Someone who keeps luring me in with the illusory hope of winning a prize.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
• Patterns can be illusory and the new rules based on them premature.
  — Joseph Reagle, Quartzy, 16 June 2019
• But all the comic hysteria on the right doesn’t mean the threat is entirely illusory.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
• Keckley’s designs date to just before the Gilded Age, whose name was coined by Mark Twain in a nod to the illusory nature of the period.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2022
• But the supply worries are easing, and may have been illusory.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• Just 30 cats saw the experiment through to the end, most of whom expressed no interest in any floor shapes at all, illusory or not.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 12 May 2021
• But peace is illusory as long as Hamas remains in power.
  — Phil Klay, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• Even a show of support for the Communists proved illusory.
  — New York Times, 11 Sep. 2019
• Three decades after Gorbachev’s speech, the respite now seems illusory.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2022
• The facts of this case stand in stark contrast to the government’s wishful and illusory arguments.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 18 Feb. 2020
• There have been war scares throughout seven-year conflict and this too could prove illusory.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2021
• The magic that had clung even to the name Guermantes proves to be as illusory as Odette’s Botticelli aura.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory.
  — Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• Why should people be taxed on gains that are purely illusory?
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 11 Aug. 2020
• Now that imagination has become attuned to class, and to some illusory sense of danger.
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024