How to Use fabricate in a Sentence

fabricate

verb
  • Only the largest parts were fabricated at the factory.
  • Their plan is to fabricate the house out of synthetic materials.
  • She was accused of fabricating data.
  • So all of that stuff, the bedroom and the kitchen, all that is fabricated.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
  • False and fabricated speeches at the UN no longer make the cut.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The person would have to source some false teeth, then fabricate the letter and send it all the way from Spain.
    Matt Reynolds, Wired, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Artists will have one year to plan and fabricate works that will be unveiled in the summer of 2023.
    Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • How could a man fabricate a story like that with no proof?
    Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 26 Apr. 2018
  • To fabricate the tiny endoscope, the team 3D-printed the lenses, which are too small to see with the naked eye.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2020
  • In rebuilding both axles, the team had to fabricate a tool to reach into the housings to scrape out all the mud.
    Car and Driver, 30 Nov. 2016
  • Each suit took more than two weeks to fabricate in the Budapest work room.
    Carole Horst, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The key is to fabricate accurate molds; then just mix up a batch of concrete and pour.
    David Agrell and Eric Weil, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2020
  • And the question that people ask is: Where were the chips fabricated?
    Gianluca Dotti, Wired News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Those are fabricated and couldn’t be further from the truth.
    Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Three cars were fabricated from scratch while the fourth was made from an ex P3 chassis.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
  • But here’s the thing: his chronic compulsion to fabricate is alive and well.
    Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Many of his recent films will be on view, and the show has given him the chance to fabricate new works that he’s been thinking about for years.
    Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The first house's roof and walls will be fabricated off-site and then brought to the building site for assembly.
    NBC News, 2 July 2018
  • The steel fist in the middle of the square was fabricated here by a group of volunteers and the artist Jordan Powell Karis.
    Meg Anderson, NPR, 23 May 2025
  • But the company that fabricated the fake food didn’t get the order quite right.
    Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Blair is the man who plagarized and fabricated dozens of facts in news stories while a reporter for the Times and got away with it for months.
    Paul Elie, Vanity Fair, 10 Mar. 2017
  • New mounts for the rear springs had to be fabricated, as did three-inch spacers to mount the 15-inch-wide American Track Truck tracks to the rear.
    Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The staff even fabricated dentures for him that same day.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 30 June 2017
  • The staff even fabricated dentures for him that same day.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 July 2017
  • Maybe fabricate a road trip despite what the schedule says.
    Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • The First Third guys, Craig and Bryan (who designed and fabricated the bar), had already been working on the design.
    Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 3 June 2019
  • The First Third guys, Craig and Bryan (who designed and fabricated the bar), had already been working on the design.
    Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 3 June 2019
  • In fact, Balogun only looks like a threat at all when viewed through the lens that the FBI fabricated whole cloth.
    Luke Darby, GQ, 12 May 2018
  • If the Kraken’s clip is fabricated, then the team successfully duped the major broadcast news networks as well as Outside.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The media company argued that the statements were not fabricated.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025

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