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.
• What illusions have been too sweet to let go of?
  — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 19 Oct. 2025
• Or at least the illusion of hate.
  — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
• Well, one guy has seen through the illusion.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 23 Feb. 2026
• That will prove to be an illusion.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
• But that illusion comes at a cost.
  — Victor Petreca, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
• This year was just an illusion.
  — Tim Britton, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
• It’s known as the moon illusion.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 1 Oct. 2025
• 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
• The trick is to not get hoodwinked by the illusion of a deal.
  — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 7 June 2026
• Not even Trump can have any illusions now.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
• The slim tee over the dress creates the illusion of a skirt.
  — Jenifer Calle, Glamour, 26 Mar. 2026
• For years, the illusion worked.
  — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
• Some ladies even added a heel and did their hair and makeup for a mod illusion.
  — Nandi Howard, Essence, 15 Apr. 2020
• Justice can be so hard to find that even the illusion of it can seem like progress.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Eclipses bring truth to the surface, so don’t cling to illusions.
  — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 31 Aug. 2025
• Let go of an illusion that weakens you.
  — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
• There’s no such illusion about Rue.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 June 2026
• At the same time, Democrats should face no illusions about the task ahead of them.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 15 May 2024
• Art is here to prove, and to help one bear, the fact that all safety is an illusion.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2018
• Long-term goals become clear once illusions fall away.
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
• All of that is, of course, an illusion, achieved through hours and hours of practice.
  — Meghan McDonough, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2020
• This is just a lucky illusion some of us can live for a period of time.
  — Abigail Rasminsky, Longreads, 8 Jan. 2018
• Beware the illusion of the open world.
  — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 21 Jan. 2026
• And it was made based on the illusion of a moral binary.
  — Chella Man, Time, 17 Jan. 2026
• In order to do that, the coat itself is part of the illusion.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 19 May 2025