How to Use figment in a Sentence

figment

noun

• By the end of the year Deadspin was a figment of its former self.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 23 Dec. 2019
• The war on meat is no figment of the right’s imagination.
  — Stephen Moore, WSJ, 9 May 2021
• One day, Velázquez’s vision of a dark Puerto Rico may be a figment of the past.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2022
• Even her jet-black ground is laid on fat and glossy; the fact of death seems, in these gestures, a vital figment.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• In the middle of kissing, Moe keeps seeing the figment of Noah instead of the real Vice.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• The entire house of cards was just that, a figment, nothing real.
  — Nick Bilton, The Hive, 8 June 2018
• Something known as the dialectic was said to be the key to progress, but nobody could make sense of this figment.
  — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 28 Apr. 2020
• Better to stick to figments, where the grass always smells freshly mown.
  — Longreads, 9 Jan. 2018
• Back then, stocks thrived on hope, with little in the way of sales and profits a figment of someone’s spreadsheet.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2020
• There are now enough figments to fill an entire town, dubbed Lower Duck Pond.
  — Cian Maher, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2019
• The thought of a home cooked meal on a weekday doesn’t have to remain a figment of your imagination.
  — Gabrielle Judd, baltimoresun.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Christie’s entire conceit is a fiction, a figment, a mirage — that is, a lie.
  — Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
• That far away from Moscow, artists were a figment of the imagination.
  — Marshall Yarbrough, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• My newfound oil slick of a face wasn't a figment of my imagination.
  — Health.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• Rather than being a mere figment of thought, the rock was tangibly real to Johnson.
  — Kai Von Fintel, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2022
• The only problem is that Mr. Ozkaya’s find may be nothing more than a figment of his perception.
  — Marc Mewshaw, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• Kevin Durant, to them, is just an abstraction, a guy on the TV, a figment of their imaginations.
  — New York Times, 2 June 2021
• As if the rampant killings of black men at the hands of police—with impunity—are a figment of our imaginations.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 31 May 2018
• Excuse me, but was Jalen Hurts a figment of my imagination last year?
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al.com, 18 July 2019
• Then another figment comes: a slave auction with Jones on the block, Southern belles fanning themselves in the crowd.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
• Aioli, like beef, seems to be a figment of human imagination.
  — Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 4 July 2019
• So, as Spencer opens in theaters this weekend, here’s a breakdown of what’s fact, and what is a figment of the auteur’s imagination.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2021
• But was the perception real or just a pleasurable figment conjured up by the gray goo?
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2022
• But is the spider real or a figment of Jakub's imagination?
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
• The world’s millions of advice-hungry investors aren’t just a figment of the imagination.
  — Michael Spellacy, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• Stretched over 13 episodes, after George’s visit, this little figment of Meredith’s near-death state hasn’t taught us much about Meredith.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
• Could Monty be calling Clay or is this a figment of his imagination?
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 6 June 2020
• In the end, the entire video is revealed to be a figment of the taxi driver’s imagination while Doja is sitting as a passenger in his cab.
  — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2021
• None of them are interesting (least of all Hayley Atwell’s Lizzie, who’s essentially the figment in chief), but most of them are fun enough to keep young kids engaged for a while.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 June 2024
• Soon, though, her world is turned upside down by an unsettling and persistent stalker — or just a figment of her own fracturing psyche.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024