How to Use fiction in a Sentence

fiction

noun
  • She believes the fiction that crime rates are up.
  • But the fiction has not held up.
    — Donald Moynihan, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
  • And to know this is not fiction.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Truth is stranger than fiction.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • So what's fact and what's fiction?
    — Jr Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Of course, the very same tools can make fiction look like fact.
    — Aayushi Pratap, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • My fiction is always way, way over the top.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2026
  • The truth is just as shocking as fiction.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The war on our colleges is based on fiction, not fact.
    — Stanley S. Litow, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • There's a fiction involved in all of this.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Which is rich for fan fiction, and fiction!
    — Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Writing fiction is a lot of things.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The final work in the end is part-her, part-fiction.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • But sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.
    — Charley Crockett, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
  • But Half Man is a work of fiction.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 11 June 2026
  • That was fiction, but this was real.
    — Adam Frank, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • This is your first fiction feature film.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
    — Jeff Goldblum, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
  • One is climate fiction, or cli-fi.
    — Aaron Matz, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • How much does that inform your fiction?
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Like that book, this one plays loose with the line between fact and fiction.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • For a start, there are the films that have sprung from Leonard’s fiction.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • This is the fifth fiction film ever made in Yemen.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
  • But the truth in fiction, there is a certain type of truth and that has to be there.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The story of this song is almost too strange for fiction.
    — Ryan Brennan april 8, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026
  • John Green is poised to reenter the fiction world.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Those same concerns come to the forefront in his fiction as well.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Take a scene from your memoir and try writing it as a flash fiction piece.
    — Matthew Clark Davison, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
  • Nothing could be more fatal to a work of fiction.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026

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