fictionalise

IPA: fˈɪkʃʌnʌɫaɪz

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fictionalize. [To retell something real as if it were fiction, especially by fabricating falsehoods]

Examples of "fictionalise" in Sentences

Next week, is dialogue week, in which I must fictionalise a conversation with my husband.
An interesting reaction, since, though she hasn't fictionalise her grief, she has published a 417-page account of it.
Doctordi – how we need a Donna Tartt to come along and fictionalise Cambridge in a literary way – that would be so good!
If the film is as much about family, why didn't Bouchareb fictionalise his story entirely – why hobble it with the baggage of 7/7?
Ben Myers's novel is an attempt to fictionalise what happened to Edwards in the few days – perhaps his last – after he left that hotel.
Six hundred words were suggested to tackle the important question of whether it is "right and fair" to fictionalise real-life characters.
We've reached a point where you can't just fictionalise these stories anymore – there's a wider public understanding of, and a respect for, video games.
Helen Dunmore, whose novel The Siege is about wartime Leningrad – its sequel, The Betrayal, is about the period immediately before Stalin's death – said that novelists stray into "dangerous territory" when they fictionalise real people.
And yes, I do need the distance in order to be able to write about a place, because as a writer of fiction I need to fictionalise it to some extent, and I would find that difficult to do if I was looking at it through the window as I wrote.