mirage

Example Sentences

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The mirage from the road is in the forest, too.

From Literature

“The scene seemed to collapse under all these absences,” Ms. Lewin reports, “the mirage of the writer’s room destroyed.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Then there’s Texas, the perennial Democratic mirage — always shimmering on the horizon.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet given the chamber’s rules, this vision is a mirage.

From The Wall Street Journal

The presumption that Dubai is a transient mirage, a Hollywood set built on sand that would unravel once the going gets tough, was no doubt shared in Tehran.

From The Wall Street Journal