How do you use the word "fiction" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "fiction" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "fiction": Reading science fiction sometimes does much to encourage a scientific view of the universe. Bob was so beside himself that he could scarcely tell fact from fiction.

Fiction Meaning

/ˈfɪkʃən/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounLiterary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

nounA verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).

Sentence Examples

Reading science fiction sometimes does much to encourage a scientific view of the universe.

Bob was so beside himself that he could scarcely tell fact from fiction.

She prefers reading historical fiction rather than science fiction.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

fable fabrication

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

She prefers reading sci-fi ____ over any historical textbook.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I enjoy reading science ____ because it allows me to imagine strange and wonderful worlds in the future.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”); see feign, feint, figment.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[…] in view of the facts—and some fictions—recently circulated in this country about the general performance of high-powered diesel-hydraulics of B.R., […]." — 1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 390:

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