figment

How to use figment in a sentence

Other classic Halloween characters, like ghosts, are just figments of our imagination.

That’s a figment of his imagination and obviously being used for political advancement.

Instead, it sets up an end-of-first-act plot twist where we find out that Joe has been talking to a figment of his imagination all along.

This is Sam’s “double,” a figment of his imagination that offers advice that often contradicts what Sam wants to do.

The “discourse” online is between figments of ourselves, ghosts in dialogue.

That this whole thing was a figment of Mr. Hamblen's imagination.

WARREN COMMISSION (10 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. X (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

This indeed was his spiritual and mental reality for her; the rest of him was a figment, a dream that might pass suddenly away.

PLASHERS MEADCOMPTON MACKENZIE

And yet it is not true that matter is a pure figment of the imagination; it has an existence of its own, a potential existence.

The forms of government are abstractions, not names of realities, and their 'mixture' is a pure figment.

It was not that to my feelings the obligations were really a mere figment of pretence.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985