How to Use illusory in a Sentence

illusory

adjective

• But the past two weeks have been a reminder that refuge can be illusory.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2020
• The illusory all-screen phone design is no longer just a dream.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 June 2021
• Growth has been weak and illusory.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• So what if my illusory sheep are the size of the White House?
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2020
• Now, a new study in Science shows that this idea is illusory.
  — Grace Huckins, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2022
• But so far, at least, that cost savings largely has been illusory.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
• Why should people be taxed on gains that are purely illusory?
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 11 Aug. 2020
• Man, woman, dog—their illusory life was over.
  — Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• Some of it may be very good; some of it may be completely illusory or even harmful.
  — John Koetsier, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
• The concept of money might be the greatest illusory trick of all time.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2020
• There have been war scares throughout seven-year conflict and this too could prove illusory.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2021
• The risks of banning such a text far outweigh the illusory rewards.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2021
• Patterns can be illusory and the new rules based on them premature.
  — Joseph Reagle, Quartzy, 16 June 2019
• Physicists treat the volume of the black hole as illusory, like a hologram.
  — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
• But the supply worries are easing, and may have been illusory.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• The felines chose the illusory square seven times, nearly as much as the eight times cats chose real squares.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 May 2021
• Desirous of the benefits, even if illusory, doctors are like moths to the flame for these deals.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
• Put another way, the self can be both illusory and real, or real enough.
  — Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
• The cost-cutting obsession is a trap, and the savings may prove illusory.
  — Brad Anderson, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
• Three decades after Gorbachev’s speech, the respite now seems illusory.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2022
• The auction prices and the professorships and even the art hanging on the wall by now seemed illusory.
  — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
• Time may be an absolute, but our measurements of it are illusory.
  — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• Time may be an absolute, but our measurements of it are illusory.
  — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
• And his policies on the defining issues of our time are too often empty, even illusory.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2020
• Auctions are built on an illusory symmetry of hope.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• But all the comic hysteria on the right doesn’t mean the threat is entirely illusory.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
• However illusory, however briefly, the weak can topple the strong, and the great chasms of the world seem to shrink.
  — Kanishk Tharoor, The Atlantic, 14 July 2018
• The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory.
  — Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• This very latest trend could be illusory, too, but the lesson is not to get too comfortable with any set of assumptions.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 7 June 2018
• With rates rising and the Fed’s pile of Treasurys being sold down, those gains might prove illusory.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 4 June 2018