fiction

Example Sentences

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The novel, which sold 314,000 print copies so far this year, sits atop the New York Times paperback trade fiction bestseller list.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The fiction: Rattlesnakes are lying in wait to bite humans.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

It sounds like science fiction, but space is becoming a strategic asset for companies and governments worldwide.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

The narrator of “10:04” dreams of a book that, “like a poem, is neither fiction nor nonfiction, but a flickering between them.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

I loved the African-American literature class I’d taken my freshman year where we had read fiction to try to understand American history in the nineteenth century.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad