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How to use mirage in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Mirage means an optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water. Example: “All that had been in his mind seemed suddenly miraged before him—the removal of Hunterleys, his own wife's failing health.”

Examples of mirage by meaning

verbTo cause to appear as or like a mirage.

  • All that had been in his mind seemed suddenly miraged before him—the removal of Hunterleys, his own wife's failing health.1915, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
  • The vision of a salon was miraged before her, with herself in the middle deftly manipulating the destinies of a nation.1901, A. E. W. Mason, Ensign Knightley and Other Stories

More sentences with mirage

  • The thing about Joker that specifically appeals to clowncels is the heroic mirage imparted on the Joker.2019, Caroline Cabe, "Inside Todd Phillips’ Joker and the Rise of the ‘Clowncel’, The Texas Orator, 22 October 2019. From the entry clowncel
  • These thoughts appear like a mirage, a hallucination, a symptom of the schizophrenia of expeditioning.1998, Greg Child, Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas, page 185. From the entry expedition
  • Charlotte Haze is spared Quilty's fate because she is, from the beginning, not a mirage but an oppressive, dull, untransfigurable reality.2010, Lucy Maddox, Nabokov's Novels in English, page 71. From the entry untransfigurable
  • The men in this moving mirage of battered vehicles felt they had well and truly followed the Dreaming.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 124. From the entry dreaming
  • But there is also, on occasion, an under-oxygenated air of fantasy, a shimmering mirage of whitelessness and Asian self-sufficiency.1999, Eric Liu, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, page 71. From the entry whitelessness
  • Distorted mirage, aloofliest of the plain, wherein the boxomeness of the bedelias makes hobbyhodge happy in his hole.1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC…. From the entry aloofliest
  • And when workslop can now be found across education, business & government sectors, is the promise of productivity that comes with AI already a mirage?2025 October 20, “What is 'workslop' and what can we do about it?”, in The World Today, spoken by Andy Park, via Australian Broadcasting…. From the entry workslop
  • The idea that Western media is run by fair-minded people who are independent, driven only by a desire to talk truth to power, is a mirage.2023 February 21, Chandran Nair, “Anti-China Rhetoric Is Off the Charts in Western Media”, in The Diplomat. From the entry talk truth to power

Meaning of mirage

  1. noun An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
  2. noun An illusion.
  3. verb To cause to appear as or like a mirage.

Full definition of mirage

Questions about mirage in a sentence

How do you use mirage in a sentence?
Mirage is used as a noun and verb. For example: “All that had been in his mind seemed suddenly miraged before him—the removal of Hunterleys, his own wife's failing health.”
What is a short sentence with mirage?
“These thoughts appear like a mirage, a hallucination, a symptom of the schizophrenia of expeditioning.”
What does mirage mean?
Mirage means an optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mirage (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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