illusion
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Americans had concealed this through increased female workforce participation and rising house prices that created an illusion of wealth as wages flatlined.
Free or low-cost VPNs may log your data, serve you ads or offer weak encryption, giving the illusion of security and privacy when, in fact, they provide neither.
From Salon
His company has been developing illumination with higher-than-usual amounts of blue-enriched light, using faux windows that give the illusion of a blue sky outside and faux skylights that show blue sky with a virtual sun.
Walk around it, and the shifting, light-reflective and -absorbent white forms create an uncanny illusion of the pillar in jumpy, unstable motion.
From Los Angeles Times
Some retailers raise prices in the weeks before Black Friday, only to drop them again during the "sale", creating the illusion of a steep discount.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
