How to Use illusion in a Sentence

illusion

noun

• The video game is designed to give the illusion that you are in control of an airplane.
• She says that all progress is just an illusion.
• They used paint to create the illusion of metal.
• But Foxconn has tried to maintain the illusion that it’s been business as usual.
  — Quartz, 2 Nov. 2022
• There are moments when this sense of foreboding — a sense of illusion about to fall — is leaned on a little too heavily.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
• The illusion that choosing a fancy plaything (or any other baby product) could help your child lures in many parents.
  — Annie Midori Atherton, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2022
• The longing for Armageddon depends on the illusion that genuine risk is no longer available.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Nov. 2022
• Old footage of the actor was utilized to help create the illusion, along with the actor’s original jacket from Raiders.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2022
• Create the illusion of a two dimensional Christmas tree with these colorful light strands.
  — Emily Rochotte, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
• Looking like a vision in black, the mermaid dress hugged the NBC star's curves as a train of tulle completed the hourglass illusion.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 10 Nov. 2022
• After various teaching moments, viewers glimpsed the rigor and detail that goes into creating the illusion of ease on stage.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
• Stutz defines the snapshot as a realm of illusion, wherein individuals seek out the perfect experience.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2022
• Yet by adopting randomization, funders and seekers of funding would only be dropping the illusion that existing decisions are right.
  — Adrian Barnett, STAT, 26 Oct. 2022
• Thoughtful furnishings help the room function efficiently: A canopy bed gives the illusion of airiness and a hanging chair offers a snug place to sit without crowding floor space.
  — Marni Elyse Katz, House Beautiful, 11 Nov. 2022
• Experts say inside a cockpit, the flash of a laser pointer can lead to distraction, temporary blindness, or even afterimage — a visual illusion— for a period of time.
  — Dian Zhang, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
• But that illusion is shattered when said wife, a beautiful hay-haired warrior named Faye, dies of (gasp) natural causes, leaving him alone to raise their adolescent son, Atreus.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
• The flow of the trousers gives the illusion of a maxi skirt, but don’t be fooled.
  — Alexis Gaskin, Glamour, 6 May 2022
• The speech-to-song illusion takes a string of words, and plays them on a loop.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 8 June 2018
• This is not the time to give the illusion of selling it.
  — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• In terms of the painting, there’s a sense of an illusion.
  — Seph Rodney, New York Times, 15 May 2020
• At the same time, Democrats should face no illusions about the task ahead of them.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 15 May 2024
• The illusion may be easy enough to trick even those of us who have roughed it for a week in a van.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• The illusion ends when the suspension tower of the great bridge pokes above the tree line.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• The trick is to create an illusion of prey for the tuna.
  — Yara Enany, CNN, 23 Dec. 2021
• Art is here to prove, and to help one bear, the fact that all safety is an illusion.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2018
• And how tragic is the casting off of that illusion when the time comes at last to grow up?
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• Much has changed in the last 18 years, and much has been done to create an illusion of change.
  — Arwa Damon, CNN, 26 Mar. 2021
• All of that is, of course, an illusion, achieved through hours and hours of practice.
  — Meghan McDonough, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2020
• On the one hand, is Rockwell’s world an illusion that can’t be lived up to?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2019
• Many scammers try to rush their victims and create the illusion that time is running out.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024