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 entire house of cards was just that, a figment, nothing real.
    — Nick Bilton, The Hive, 8 June 2018
  • Better to stick to figments, where the grass always smells freshly mown.
    — Longreads, 9 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • My newfound oil slick of a face wasn't a figment of my imagination.
    — Health.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Christie’s entire conceit is a fiction, a figment, a mirage — that is, a lie.
    — Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Aioli, like beef, seems to be a figment of human imagination.
    — Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 4 July 2019
  • Fear is a figment of your imagination.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 26 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • That wasn’t a figment of the imagination.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2026
  • There are now enough figments to fill an entire town, dubbed Lower Duck Pond.
    — Cian Maher, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2019
  • That far away from Moscow, artists were a figment of the imagination.
    — Marshall Yarbrough, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • But was the perception real or just a pleasurable figment conjured up by the gray goo?
    — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Are the protagonist’s past lives real, or just figments of his psychosis?
    — Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
  • So this character is a figment of some cis man's imagination.
    — Marley Gotterer, Them., 18 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Excuse me, but was Jalen Hurts a figment of my imagination last year?
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al.com, 18 July 2019
  • One day, Velázquez’s vision of a dark Puerto Rico may be a figment of the past.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Could Monty be calling Clay or is this a figment of his imagination?
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 6 June 2020
  • On the live stream, Nacua questioned whether head injuries are real or just figments of the imagination.
    — Nate Atkins, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Big John has now suggested that this is more than just a figment of the popular imagination.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The world’s millions of advice-hungry investors aren’t just a figment of the imagination.
    — Michael Spellacy, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The news of the day is a figment of our technological imagination.
    — Greg Jackson, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • In the middle of kissing, Moe keeps seeing the figment of Noah instead of the real Vice.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
  • And with great fondness for Firth, who turns up as a wistful figment in a handful of scenes, this tragedy is the best thing that could have happened to the franchise.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
  • 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, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The conjecture says that the Cauchy horizon is a figment of mathematical thought.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 May 2018
  • 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

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