How To Use Figment In A Sentence

  • Wallach believes it was probably a figment of his imagination and that what matters is how proudly he told her his story.
  • It was not a figment of their imagination or a dream or vision.
  • a figment of the imagination
  • The attack wasn't just a figment of my imagination.
  • The Eurosceptic view of an all-powerful European superstate is a figment of the imagination.
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  • God, and to come to the enjoyment of him by Jesus Christ, there will not want sufficient testimony against that putid figment of moral virtue being all our gospel holiness, or that the reparation of our natures and life unto God doth consist therein alone. Pneumatologia
  • As with the unrequited love theme, also this was always a figment of the imagination, a displaced fantasy.
  • I do not mean that all who have written or spoken on the subject had this conception of it, but I believe they who thought truly meant this; they did not suppose that in imputing righteousness there was a kind of figment, a self-deception in the mind of God; they did not mean that by an act of will He chose to consider that every act which Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
  • They are no longer just figments of our imagination,’ he stressed.
  • No matter how real they seemed, they were just figments of your imagination.
  • So its just a "figment" of our imagination that European settlers knowingly screwed indigenous people over. Progressive Bloggers
  • As the Governess, Elizabeth Atherton sang with restless ardour, in unbearable thrall to her charges and locked into her own battle between reality and the wispy figments of a love-starved imagination. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
  • Flatbed trucks overstuffed with the carcasses of alligators shot through the back of the heads or brimmed with those skins of what were once alligators, now the figments of shoes and boots and briefcases and the homes of rats and the nests of birds. The Clown Show
  • We must pretend the bombs don't exist and the explosions are a figment of our imagination.
  • To the grown person, cold mutton is cold mutton all the world over; not all the mythology ever invented by man will make it better or worse to him; the broad fact, the clamant reality, of the mutton carries away before it such seductive figments. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
  • She dismissed it as a figment of her extremely overactive imagination.
  • With one final scream, a crash of thunder awoke her from her dream, for that's all it was, just a figment of her imagination.
  • Doctor, are you suggesting the pain is a figment of my imagination?
  • Are you telling me that these symptoms are just a figment of my imagination?
  • The recent analysis, however, suggests that the events depicted were horrifyingly real and not figments of artists' imagination.
  • Or are they figments of our imagination, as it were?
  • As we said before, the brand is a phantom, a cypher, figments of the popular imagination that have somehow become the essential conduit for cultural information about objects.
  • Was it just a figment of my imagination or did I hear John's voice in the other room?
  • Within the realms of a dressing room, the concepts of political correctness and employees' rights are but figments of the imagination.
  • [207] Quia nihil hoc cavilla proficiunt Judaei, ad figmentum venturi sui Messiae trahentes vetustum regni excidium. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
  • The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth's imagination: it stands in some way in relation to his conscience.
  • Of course a century and a half is a long time, especially if one's a fruit fly or a figment of someone's imagination, yet in another sense it's a mere drop in the blessed bucket of Father Time.
  • Tony hoped the road to freedom was only a figment of Vance's imagination. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • Funny how all that seems like a figment of the imagination, almost as if it never existed.
  • We can find animals in clouds and patterns in the stockmarket, but they are figments of our imagination.
  • But this image was a false memory, a figment of my imagination. BETTER THAN THIS
  • All those fictional holiday heroes were just figments of someone's overactive imagination.
  • Facebook didn't exist—and wasn't even a figment of Mark's imagination—at the time this fraudulent contract and many of the bogus emails are dated," said Mr. Snyder. Fight Over Facebook Origins Escalates
  • ‘But vampires are figments of imagination, they aren't real,’ she said with a laugh.
  • Sara is so capable of "drumming up some figment of her imagination", I'm sure she could somehow manage to become a "resident" of New York, and take the City by storm! Clinton: No truth to rumor she is considering New York gov run
  • So at first she did not even know if it was real or a figment of her imagination.
  • Sam is uncertain as to whether this strange new world is real or just a figment of his imagination.
  • Each time I see Hugh, I remind him that we are a figment of his capacious imagination.
  • If you didn't see them on the news pages of respected newspapers, you would think they were figments of a fevered imagination.
  • The figure vanished as silently as if it had simply been a figment of her imagination.
  • Though some of the things he saw - or thought he saw - were indeed real, most of it were just figments of his ever-active imagination.
  • In plain terms, the famous "scholion eusebiou" proves to be every way a figment. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established
  • Old stories that are often scorned as pure figments of the imagination have a habit of coming home to roost.
  • The biased liberal media" is a figment of the imagination. I'm 'saddened' by 'vicious attacks' on Palin, McCain says
  • A conclusion of rampant anti-Catholic bias in America, where the highest court in the land counts six Catholics among its nine members, could reasonably be described as a figment of somebody's over-hyped imagination. Jon O'Brien: The Empire (State Building) Strikes Back: Cutting Bill Donohue's King-Kong-Sized Ego Down to Size
  • The ugly rectory is a figment of my imagination, for there was never such a building on Wood Green.
  • Strangely, none of the people who should have been there were there, but were instead replaced by figments of my imagination.
  • Rarissimus in Analoge – Veritatibus Figmentisque Scientiarum fabulae historiarum alternarum; autem “Quaestiones” veniam datus est. April 30th, 2008
  • Cordoba House, which he called a figment of Gingrich's imagination, and the MSNBC host pointed out that the community center will be open to all New Yorkers. Pam's House Blend - Front Page
  • Which of the following three courses are actually funded by the taxpayer, and which are the figments of my imagination?
  • Its a mirage, a figment of some businessman's dream or an economists momentary flash of desperation.
  • God, Jesus, Buddha, Allah or whatever you call the figment of your superstitious mind are nothing but frauds. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Do please assure me that this is just a figment of someone's imagination. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • I was stuck in the sterile aerie of a creature who could fly—why would I assume that mysterious dark wings were a figment of my imagination? Raziel
  • She knew now that these visions were not figments of her imagination.
  • These people do exist; they're not figments of my imagination.
  • Besides, as often remarked, it is a human figment which is not commanded, and is unnecessary and useless; for the holy The Smalcald Articles
  • * Quia nihil hoc cavilla proficiunt Judaei, ad figmentum venturi sui Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
  • Nearly three years after work had begun, the dam was still a figment of the imagination.
  • Doctor, are you suggesting the pain is a figment of my imagination?
  • Life will now become a flat, prosaic routine of matter-of-fact; and sleep itself, erst so prolific of numerical configurations and mysterious stimulants to lottery-adventure, will be disfurnished of its figures and figments. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
  • Vnde missarum sacrificia, quibus uulgo dicebatur, Sacerdotem offerre Christum in remissionem poena aut culpae pro uiuis et defunctis, blasphema figmenta sunt, et pernitiosae imposturae. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
  • The mugger was a figment of her imagination, the girl is real!! Report: McCain Volunteer Who Claimed "Carved B" Attack Confesses To Making Up Story
  • Such ‘unitarianism of the Spirit’ is no figment of some overheated Roman imagination.
  • The whole Clinton cabala with the Repubs is a figment of far left imagination. In New Hampshire, Hillary Pulls Away From Obama
  • Maybe he was like all the others and I was fancifully making all his nice gestures up, it was all a figment of my imagination.
  • There's even a few of them mentioned in the Bible, but that may just be a jolly good novel and the figment of someone's fervid imagination.
  • I loved that anthology, and, although an 11-year-old aspiring "poetess", I wasn't alarmed that women were more often the subjects than the authors (what's so bad about being a rarity?) but, yes, it was refreshing suddenly to be presented with this notion that the poet's desired woman might not exist at all; that she might be a figment of his imagination. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • He was a ghost I carried around inside me, a prehistoric figment, a thing that was no longer real.
  • And I doubt not but we shall find, in our inquiry, that it is no such figment as some, ignorant of these things, do imagine; but, on the contrary, an important truth immixed with the most fundamental principles of the mystery of the gospel, and inseparable from the grace of God in Christ Jesus. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
  • So elevation of either Pranab Mukherjee or AK Antony and their candidature can only be called figment of imagination. Zee News : India National
  • You think the prowler is a figment of my imagination. The Flower Man
  • Doctor, are you suggesting the pain is a figment of my imagination?
  • As a figment of heterosexual wish-fulfilment, the female nude serves primarily to guarantee the stability of a phallocentric fantasy in which the omnipotent male gaze sees but is never itself seen.
  • This is just a figment of the imagination of weak minds that conjure up images to provide solace when they cannot handle reality, she continued.
  • It wasn't a dream, a hallucination, or a figment of my wild, childish imagination.
  • He seems less like a real person than like a figment of Bobby's imagination.
  • The mothers begin to suspect that their daughters might be figments of their respective imaginations.
  • And she said no 'figment' because she could never imagine it happening Word Magazine - Comments
  • Thus unbreakable ciphers do exist, and are not merely a figment of abstract imagination.
  • These people do exist; they're not figments of my imagination.
  • They were unpleasant sometimes, but no more so than being in this prison, and they seemed too real to be merely figments of his imagination.

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