[ US /ˈfɪkʃən/ ]
[ UK /fˈɪkʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
  2. a deliberately false or improbable account
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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.
  • 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.
  • It was followed by Crime, where plot and suspense were king, and those often sidelined as "genre fiction" — Crichton, King or Rendell — were given credit for their craft.
  • On the other hand my books don't lend themselves to movies and they tend to violate basic laws of fiction writing.
  • As a result, instead of the clean visuals that typify the science fiction genre, we see lens flares, shaky handheld cameras, zooms, and sloppy rack focuses even in CGI shots.
  • Those qualities were instead projected on to a father he had barely known and a figure he invented in fiction. Times, Sunday Times
  • This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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