How to Use fiction in a Sentence

fiction

noun

• She believes the fiction that crime rates are up.
• Like that book, this one plays loose with the line between fact and fiction.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Her valiant fight against the evil that men do makes for a winning blend of fact and fiction.
  — Malcolm Forbes, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2024
• For the first time, two novels are sharing the Pulitzer Prize for best fiction book.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 10 May 2023
• Page Six got intel from a source close to the couple, who called out the breakup talk as fiction.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 19 July 2023
• The rest of the season was just as zany, with Molitor and Higuera's streaks back-to-back The arc of the season sounds like a work of fiction.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
• Colleen Hoover, an author of young adult and adult fiction, has become a huge name thanks to the app.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
• While the series is inspired by the father and son, the end result is a mic of truth and fiction.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• The result is a true-life tale of fame and friendship stranger (and funnier) than fiction.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
• But this time, with the power of fiction, Reichl fulfilled the chef’s wish from 1990.
  — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2024
• This required both sides to maintain the fiction that the person on the porch had not been observed.
  — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
• The location in his fiction had shifted as well, to the desert Southwest.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• Fact and fiction merge against a backdrop of winter’s chill.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 17 July 2024
• The Best Books of 2023 Read our reviews of the year’s notable new fiction and nonfiction.
  — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• This won't be the first time Starfleet Academy has been explored in works of Star Trek fiction, of course.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
• To what end would an author valorize fact inside of a work of fiction?
  — Jennifer Krasinski, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
• Truth be told, the events that led to its recovery seemed stranger than any scammer’s fiction.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• For Greg [who lives in Missouri and asked to remain anonymous for the story], this isn't fiction.
  — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 2 Feb. 2024
• Whenever a beloved work of fiction makes the journey from page to the stage or screen, fans of the book invariably find fault with the result.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2024
• Later that year, McCarthy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• Hall, the talk show host and author, has a lot on her plate: TV, fiction writing and her family.
  — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• Watch Video The Washington Post book reviewer offers his picks for the best fiction of the year.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2024
• In Jane Smiley’s rock ’n’ roll novel, does good sense make good fiction?
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2024
• That said, zombie movies aren’t complete works of fiction.
  — Alisa Bowman, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
• Sales of trade books — that is, consumer fiction and nonfiction — rose more than 40%.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• The state was just another fiction: a cruel one, perhaps, but a fiction all the same.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
• For every one of us in fact or in fiction, this will happen at some point, which is both the challenge and the consolation of the form.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• What could possibly go wrong? Losing the Plot Truth is stranger than fiction.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Spy fiction teeters along that line of knowing and unknowing.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024
• Using talking heads and staged scenes, the documentary blends fact with fiction.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024