How to Use illusion in a Sentence

illusion

noun

• The video game is designed to give the illusion that you are in control of an airplane.
• She says that all progress is just an illusion.
• They used paint to create the illusion of metal.
• The flow of the trousers gives the illusion of a maxi skirt, but don’t be fooled.
  — Alexis Gaskin, Glamour, 6 May 2022
• The speech-to-song illusion takes a string of words, and plays them on a loop.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 8 June 2018
• This is not the time to give the illusion of selling it.
  — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• In terms of the painting, there’s a sense of an illusion.
  — Seph Rodney, New York Times, 15 May 2020
• The illusion may be easy enough to trick even those of us who have roughed it for a week in a van.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• The illusion ends when the suspension tower of the great bridge pokes above the tree line.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• The trick is to create an illusion of prey for the tuna.
  — Yara Enany, CNN, 23 Dec. 2021
• Art is here to prove, and to help one bear, the fact that all safety is an illusion.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2018
• And how tragic is the casting off of that illusion when the time comes at last to grow up?
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• Much has changed in the last 18 years, and much has been done to create an illusion of change.
  — Arwa Damon, CNN, 26 Mar. 2021
• All of that is, of course, an illusion, achieved through hours and hours of practice.
  — Meghan McDonough, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2020
• On the one hand, is Rockwell’s world an illusion that can’t be lived up to?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2019
• The door is part of a spacious living room, and when raised, gives the illusion of a not-so-tiny home.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 11 May 2018
• Justice can be so hard to find that even the illusion of it can seem like progress.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2019
• Keeping the beanie on helped with the illusion somewhat.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
• Some ladies even added a heel and did their hair and makeup for a mod illusion.
  — Nandi Howard, Essence, 15 Apr. 2020
• The princess glowed in a white wedding dress with a high illusion neckline and long sleeves cuffed with the same lace.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2023
• The top part of the look was cinched at the waist, giving the illusion that the outfit was two separate pieces.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 2 May 2023
• That can create the illusion of scarcity and prompt some consumers to rush to the site.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 12 July 2019
• And somebody’s going to move out of the way because the illusion will be so grand.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2023
• This is a colorists' trick — make the hair lightest at the front to give an illusion of all-over blonde.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 21 Sep. 2018
• The illusion is that those things have our same values.
  — Samuel Hine, GQ, 30 May 2018
• The little fan on the console of Flight of Passage that adds to the airborne illusion.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2023
• Small bits of the glass will show through and create the illusion that the garden continues on and on.
  — Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
• This look gives the illusion of a lace or satin bra peeking out of a gown’s neckline.
  — Ivy Manners, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• This is just a lucky illusion some of us can live for a period of time.
  — Abigail Rasminsky, Longreads, 8 Jan. 2018
• The mockery of him that went a step too far unveiled a strain of pathos that caused masks and illusions to drop away.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 11 July 2019

Last Updated: 9 May 2024