How to Use fictitious in a Sentence

fictitious

adjective
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  • The characters in the book are all fictitious.
  • She gave a fictitious address on the application.
  • 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
  • Life in the fictitious Midwestern town of Genoa City lives on.
    — Marc Berman, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Nargle is the latest in a long line of on-screen painters, both real and fictitious.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
  • She was advised about the headlight, and fictitious plates.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2022
  • But Simsbury is not Grover’s Corner, the fictitious town where Wilder’s play is set.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2022
  • While the the house is located in the fictitious town of Haddonfield, Ill. in the movie, in real life it can be found in Pasadena, Calif.
    — Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The island is featured in every film as the fictitious Isla Nublar, where the dinosaurs were brought back to life, bred, and roamed free.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2023
  • It was then found that the car was not registered and bore a fictitious Missouri license plate.
    — cleveland, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Sophia was living in the fictitious Shady Pines while the three younger women roomed together.
    — Jamie Gold, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • The fictitious person’s name: Ron Vara, which is an anagram of Navarro.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Though the story is fictitious, the Limberlost is a real place.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 27 Feb. 2022
  • But the movie’s fictitious band, Hello Peril, was arguably the best reveal.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Torn down around 1930, it was said to have been modeled on the Scottish castle of that fictitious Caledonian Chillum.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • This bridge is a fictitious overpass that connects Earth to heaven.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 27 July 2022
  • Registering a fictitious business name with the county is the first step, Marks said.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2022
  • The visual follows the pair through the beginning and end of a fictitious relationship.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2023
  • After speaking to the employee, it was found that the email account was fictitious and no such request had been made.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Unlike Johnny Cash's biopic Walk the Line, this setting is fictitious.
    — Emma Fraser, ELLE, 23 Sep. 2022
  • White was the very real (and very troubled) architect who designed the fictitious mansion for the Russells.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • In the work of both Molière and Larry David, the comedy lies in the main character’s extreme self-awareness about the fictitious nature of the benevolence.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Police removed the plate and cited the woman for driving with fictitious and expired plates.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The fictitious murder-confession song marks her first leader on the list, and completes a rare chart double; SOS has lorded over the Billboard 200 for the past four weeks.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Maps of real places are, in execution if not use, as much works of the imagination as maps of fictitious places are.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • But it’s set in a modern (albeit fictitious) Norweigian town.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 21 July 2022
  • The movie is entirely fictitious, as the writer-director Todd Field makes clear.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Your best bet is to answer these with fictitious information that can’t be guessed or found online.
    — Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • And although the character of Dre is indeed fictitious, many of the pop culture events and crimes depicted are real.
    — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023

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