How to Use fictitious in a Sentence

fictitious

adjective
  • The characters in the book are all fictitious.
  • She gave a fictitious address on the application.
  • That was a role model of a fictitious kind.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • When the car was towed, it was found to have a fictitious license plate.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • The car the man was driving was also found to have fictitious plates.
    — cleveland, 13 May 2022
  • The cards displayed the name and email address of a fictitious male.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 21 June 2019
  • And for a lot of these fictitious folks, their love of certain things are a defining trait.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The bad news about this fictitious mountainside hole-in-the-wall?
    — Tim McGovern, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But what if the prospect isn’t spoofed or completely fictitious?
    — Itzik Kotler, Forbes, 5 July 2021
  • Nargle is the latest in a long line of on-screen painters, both real and fictitious.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Even though that was a fictitious death, because that didn’t happen in that way, as part of the show that hit me.
    — Noah Hurowitz, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Putin cannot refuse a ceasefire, without losing the fictitious moral high ground.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Smith, who has a rap sheet spanning two coasts, initially gave a fictitious name, the source said.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Who wants to sit through a fictitious novelist’s clumsy drafts?
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • This bridge is a fictitious overpass that connects Earth to heaven.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 27 July 2022
  • It was then found that the car was not registered and bore a fictitious Missouri license plate.
    — cleveland, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Real and fictitious disasters Over time, the sign has had to endure a lot.
    — Clara Westhoff, Architectural Digest, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Life in the fictitious Midwestern town of Genoa City lives on.
    — Marc Berman, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The fictitious play would suffer the kind of malchance that builds momentum, gains form, enslaves a story to its premise.
    — Lauren Rothery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But like the fictitious star of the beach-clearing blockblusters, George the great white shark also lurks close to land.
    — Brett Clarkson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The Office came close, but never quite revealed its fictitious mystery crew.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The satire was fictitious and its intent only humorous.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 14 May 2026
  • The problem, says Haya, is that the tax bill on the fictitious sale would often swamp the income pulled in from writing the call.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Though the story is fictitious, the Limberlost is a real place.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The fictitious channel was dreamed up in the 2004 film Dodgeball.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 July 2025
  • Sophia was living in the fictitious Shady Pines while the three younger women roomed together.
    — Jamie Gold, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • The crime was said to be inspired by the fictitious character Slender Man.
    — Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Both case citations were fictitious.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Louies believes that although the fictitious plant root can be found in tantric shops across India, the bulk of the trade happens online.
    — National Geographic, 7 July 2017
  • Sharon Stone plays herself and talks about her (fictitious) acquaintance with Dylan in the course of the tour.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019

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