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

And if this ends up being nothing more than a figment of my imagination, where’s the harm in choosing not to question it, if it gives me something I’ve been so painfully missing.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

But how well will they win - and how intoxicating will that half-back partnership prove now that it is almost a reality rather than an exciting figment of the imagination?

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2025

I began to doubt the prior day’s events, as one would suspect a vision of the open heavens to be a figment of the mind.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein