Make-believe

My daughter has a make-believe friend.

Sami and Layla devised a make-believe world.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

In the morning of the 16th of March of 2022, I woke up from a dream about a grand amusement park where people did make-believe that they were really in a colony on Mars. The setting was a town that was a kind of bizarre fusion of Zanzibar and Hawaii. It was rustic and believable!

Curators say the display gives visitors an opportunity to look at the real stories of espionage ‘behind the gloss of make-believe.’

Come on, come on, I go up and down / I like this curious feeling / I know, I see, it's like make believe / Cover your ears so you can hear what I'm saying

‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Marjorie Lindon, to even think such nonsense. Are you all nerves and morbid imaginings,—you who have prided yourself on being so strong-minded! A pretty sort you are to do battle for anyone.—Why, they’re only make-believes!’

He called himself Lord So-and-So, even had his family crest on the wall, but it was all totally make-believe.