How to Use optical illusion in a Sentence

optical illusion

noun

• The closer building looks larger than the farther one, but it's just an optical illusion. The two buildings are actually the same size.
• But that proved to be an optical illusion.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
• Many of those grainy photos and videos turned out to be hoaxes or optical illusions.
  — Eric Weiner, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
• The squint-to-see style is the ultimate optical illusion that will make your legs look miles long.
  — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 16 July 2026
• The sleeves are sheer for a unique optical illusion and have a polka-dot-like pattern for more of a pop.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 16 June 2024
• And for those of you who like to give yourself optical illusions, here’s how to make a face from arches.
  — Cecil Beaton, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2018
• Later, the lines were proved to be nothing more than an optical illusion.
  — TheWeek, 16 Aug. 2020
• Then later that evening, the moon dog, a rare optical illusion, emerged low over the horizon.
  — Norimitsu Onishi Nasuna Stuart-Ulin, New York Times, 4 June 2023
• But maybe that was something of an optical illusion.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
• Is this normal physics, some type of optical illusion, or just plain magic?
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
• Straw raced to the warning track before an optical illusion took place.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
• This isn’t the first optical illusion look that Kenny has served.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 5 Jan. 2023
• Alas, a big ol' puddle was the culprit of the optical illusion.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2022
• Don’t dwell on how this trade looks; in a vacuum, a laundry list of draft picks can work as an optical illusion.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 21 June 2019
• But that isn’t stopping people from trying to wrap their brains around this new optical illusion.
  — Raisa Bruner, PEOPLE.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• This produces the optical illusion that, in fact, your shirt is tucked in right at the top of your skirt, which is certainly not rolled.
  — Kelly Conaboy, The Cut, 7 May 2018
• The singer took to Instagram to share some fun snapshots in an optical illusion of a dress.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 16 Oct. 2021
• The technique creates an optical illusion of jeans being stuck or glued to the wearer.
  — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 19 July 2024
• The legendary pro extended the print over lids and lips for a trippy optical illusion.
  — Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2022
• The entire book seems to flip back and forth, like an optical illusion, from literary novel to genre thriller and back again.
  — Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
• Amdam likens them to the classic optical illusion (shown on the right) which depicts both a young debutante and an old crone.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2012
• From a plane, the backlit dunes look like an optical illusion, gentle sand waves rippling out to the horizon’s edge.
  — Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 7 Feb. 2021
• Break out of your blazer dress box and try this take from Self-Portrait that feels like an optical illusion.
  — Aemilia Madden, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Oct. 2022
• Some fans on social media worried that one member of the team may have ended up in a tree, but that turned out to be an optical illusion.
  — al, 1 Jan. 2022
• By the end of next week, Mercury will switch acts in the optical illusion in our sky, moving out of retrograde.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 28 May 2022
• However, a sheer mesh wraparound panel split the floor-length skirt in half, giving the optical illusion of a minidress.
  — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 16 Mar. 2026
• Of course, the vanishing act is little more than an optical illusion to stargazers on Earth.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
• In some of the pics, an optical illusion created by the pool water has made her feet look slightly larger and misshapen.
  — Emily Wang, Allure, 17 May 2018
• The jewel colors in this photo are what caught my eye first, followed by the optical illusion of a fist coming out of the sky to punch me in the face.
  — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2017
• The trippy look was almost an optical illusion, with a trompe l’oeil, lapel and briefcase designed on the overcoat.
  — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 6 May 2025