fiction

How To Use fiction In A Sentence

• The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ... "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
• Either the recession is biting harder than I had realised or a lot of people are confused about the boundaries between fact and fiction.
• This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
• Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
• The point of reading Kafka's fiction is not, it seems to me, to arrive at a conclusion that the world we live in is absurd, or frightening, or grotesque, but that the world Kafka has created is self-sustaining and entirely logical. Translated Texts
• The debut in spring 2006 of HBO's television series, Big Love, which featured a fictional and in some ways likeable polygamous family in Utah, propelled polygamy to the front pages of American newspapers and put the idea of legalized polygamy "in play" in some surprising quarters. Elizabeth Marquardt: Get Ready for Group Marriage
• Claire Leigh and Julia Gillick, both 29 note their ages, it's important, were thrilled at the can-do response to their letter which complained that the women's fiction section was "very light, with lots of pink fluffiness and there were no classic authors". There's nothing wrong with judging a book by its cover | Viv Groskop
• But her own life was often stranger than any action-packed fiction plot.
• Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but often saintlier than fiction. The New Jerusalem
• In the child's imagination, fuelled by science-fiction, the aliens are about to land.