figment

Example Sentences

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The revs are but an airy figment in your febrile mind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

As Kunimoto says, private-fund valuations are often “a figment of imagination.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

As a figment of Charles’ imagination, Sazz is always in a suit and a porkpie hat.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025

"And it was light and nothing, no tongue, and it was beautiful, it was 'The Princess Bride,'" she said, adding that it feels like such a figment that Taddeo doesn’t even remember how it happened.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2024

That we’re the figment of someone’s imagination, some crazy person or maybe spirit or god that’s just dreamed up each and every single one of us.

From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender