Sample Sentences for
fabricate
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fabricate as in:  fabricate a story

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She fabricated the story and repeated it under oath.
fabricated = made up something false
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    You'll have to fabricate a believable story and get them trust you.
    fabricate = make up something false
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    I'm trying to think of what I can say to reassure her, trying to fabricate a lie, but then, miracle of miracles, she just lies back down in bed and closes her eyes.  (source)
    fabricate = make up
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    It was much the same as the way he left his family in Stuttgart, under a veil of fabricated loyalty.  (source)
    fabricated = made up (not true)
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    To say my thoughts aloud would be tipping off the audience that the romance has been fabricated to play on their sympathies and that would result in no food at all.  (source)
    fabricated = made up (not true)
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    The document was discredited as a fabrication but still it spread, fueling anti-Semitism in the decades before World War II.  (source)
    fabrication = something that was made up (not true)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    There's one kid Connor speaks to who actually listens and can tell the truth from the fabrications.  (source)
    fabrications = things that are made up (not true)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    "They've been stirring people up by fabricating stories like that for years," Peter said.  (source)
    fabricating = making up (something that is not true)
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    Let's assume the story you gave me is true, though I'd bet my pension a good deal of it is either fabricated or omitted.  (source)
    fabricated = made up (not true)
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    Because, you see, if the man were an invention-a fabrication-how much easier to make him disappear!  (source)
    fabrication = something that was made up (not real)
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    Rufus's lies and fabrications weren't fully revealed until long after his own death, so he never had to explain himself.  (source)
    fabrications = things that are made up (not true)
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    Inwardly, she reviewed the elements of her fabricated curriculum vitae.†  (source)
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    So tricky a piece of work would never be entrusted to a single person: on the other hand, to turn it over to a committee would be to admit openly that an act of fabrication was taking place.  (source)
    fabrication = something that was made up (not true)
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    Today, Griswold's characterization of Poe often endures, even though biographers—such as Arthur Hobson Quinn in his 1941 Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography—have documented the fabrications that Griswold made.  (source)
    fabrications = things that are made up (not true)
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fabricate as in:  fabricate metal parts

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A full machine shop allows them to quickly fabricate parts and create test fixtures.
fabricate = make or manufacture
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    The company fabricates plastic chairs.
    fabricates = makes or manufactures
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    AN AESTHETIC VOYAGER WHOSE HOME IS THE ROAD…… Immediately below this manifesto squats the stove, fabricated from a rusty oil drum.  (source)
    fabricated = made
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    Twenty men worked during the day shift producing replacement parts for mine machinery and fabricating a variety of ductwork and support structures.  (source)
    fabricating = making or manufacturing
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    Possibly nobody ever talked like that in real life, it was all a fabrication from the beginning.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Some colleges had machine shops and could custom-fabricate parts.  (source)
    fabricate = make or manufacture
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    Madame Manec brings her omelets, cassoulet, brochettes of fish, fabricating miracles out of ration tickets and the dregs of her cupboards, but Marie-Laure refuses to eat.†  (source)
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    The errors in this book that I know of are omissions, not fabrications, intended to spare people who have enough pain in their lives, a little more.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Powell gives his name as Lewis Payne and fabricates an elaborate story, saying that he has come to Mary Surratt's at her behest, in order to dig a ditch for her in the morning.†  (source)
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    The fabricator had, on this item, allowed himself the luxury of a little extra material.†  (source)
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    Juan had gotten a job as a welder at a company that fabricated metal ramps for disabled people.  (source)
    fabricated = made or manufactured
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    Field went on in his quiet instructive tone—the Federal government opened bidding among fabricators of molded plastic for the manufacture of this dinky object, a bare two inches long, irregular in outline and containing at one end a squiggly bulge which had to fit into a similarly shaped aperture with absolute precision.†  (source)
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    Mother's fabrication is so elaborate I can hardly describe it.†  (source)
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    But why would you fabricate such a ridiculous story?†  (source)
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