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

Pat died in 2012, but was later seen on-screen again with Dame Barbara Windsor, when she returned as a figment of the dying Peggy's imagination in 2016.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025

The figment of a carriage appears in the distance, steadily drawing closer in Thomas’ sight as the sound of horses’ hooves mimics his steadily increasing heartbeat.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024

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