Sample Sentences forillusory (editor-reviewed)
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The apparent progress might be illusory.illusory = false or misleading
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The promise of quick success proved illusory once the hard work began.
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Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy.
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But if my mind is playing tricks, isn't it more likely to be the dream that's illusory?† (source)
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Your access to the shadows, in this case illusory shadows, facilitates bad behavior.† (source)
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Each lash of disappointment leaving Maman more damaged, more derailed, and happiness more illusory.† (source)
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The air was occasionally rent with the sounds of illusory beings murdering other illusory beings.† (source)
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Amid the City of Illusoriness of the Six World-Planes The chieffactor is the sin and obscuration born of evil works; Therein the being followeth dictates of likes and dislikes, And findeth ne'er the time to know Equality: Avoid, O my son, likes and dislikes.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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It wasn't the cider which made me surpass myself, it was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace.† (source)
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Without borders nations appeared to be becoming somewhat illusory, and people were questioning what role they had to play.† (source)
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After his mind had calmed down a bit, he again had the thought that Three Body was deliberately pretending to be merely illusory, while in fact possessing some deep reality.† (source)
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And if I'm not going to find that with the Byrnes, I will find it, however partial and illusory, with the women in the sewing room.† (source)
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Without the illusory balconies and colonnades, there was nothing but a heap of rubble on a barren hilltop.† (source)
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They went in silence, her witchlight lighting the way, a silence Clary felt almost afraid to break, as if she would be shattering the illusory calm of a dream or a spell.† (source)
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But even the most complaisant of his notable friends pitied his illusory passion.† (source)
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Allie, he thought Allie at least had been into the world in her own self-illusory way.† (source)
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