figment of imagination
Example Sentences
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Mr Stalin denied this, calling it a "figment of imagination of Vikatan" and that Mr Martin had never donated to his party.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2024
Liberated, she wanders, dances and finds her romantic foil, in a series of scenes that could either be a figment of imagination or as real as it gets.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2016
Axact condemns this story as baseless, substandard, maligning, defamatory, and based on false accusations and merely a figment of imagination published without taking the company’s point of view.
From New York Times • May 18, 2015
“He was a pure figment of imagination, a weapon in a war far removed from the traditional battle of bombs and bullets.”
From New York Times • May 14, 2010
In his concluding sentence this greatest of Palæozoic palæontologists78 affirms that, “The theoretical evolution of the Cephalopods is, like that of the Trilobites, a mere figment of imagination, without any foundation in fact.”
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, Sir J. William
