How to Use science fiction in a Sentence

science fiction

noun
  • Time travel exists only in the realm of science fiction.
  • Here is the part that sounds like science fiction but is not.
    — Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • For decades, this idea lived at the edge of science fiction.
    — Monika Piotrowska, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025
  • And that might feel even more like science fiction.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Twelve years on, this is no longer the stuff of science fiction.
    — Roberto Rey Agudo, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
  • His movies hold up, and that’s hard to do with science fiction.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • But some of it sounds like a science fiction movie, in terms of fear.
    — CBS News, 9 July 2023
  • There are three main science fiction brands.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Yet is most science fiction space-based?
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This is no longer science fiction.
    — Ashutosh Saxena, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • This train of thought is not reserved for fans of science fiction.
    — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The smart city is no longer something out of science fiction.
    — Pankaj Srivastava, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The rise of the robots is science fiction no more.
    — Marc Lieberman, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Both were scenes that would have seemed like science fiction elsewhere in the state.
    — Brian Smale, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
  • But this was full-strength science fiction, a doctor-in-the-box.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 2023
  • There’ve been some epic science fiction film scores over the last 50-plus years.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This is not a science fiction problem.
    — Shreyans Mehta, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • The book is now regarded as the first true work of science fiction.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • As for the science fiction genre itself?
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Sounds like something out of science fiction.
    — Erika Beras, NPR, 17 June 2026
  • This is not the first film to mix Western tropes with science fiction.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
  • Driverless cars may sound like science fiction.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The best horror and science fiction mirrors the fears of its age.
    — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • These machines do not look much like the flying cars of science fiction.
    — Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Of course, time travel is still firmly in the realm of science fiction.
    — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The film is, like the story that inspired it, a work of hard science fiction.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2021
  • Changing weather on a large scale is still science fiction, at least in the near term.
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
  • But that doesn’t mean the program is a science fiction sideshow today.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2020
  • For decades, humanoid robots lived in science fiction and in high-tech labs.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • If this seems the stuff of science fiction, welcome to the world of modern-day medicine.
    — Christopher Hartnick, STAT, 1 Sep. 2022

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