Example sentences of "is [adj] than fiction " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senator Inouye was sterner : he realized that ordinary citizens thought Hakim 's testimony ‘ fascinating and exotic ’ , and chuckled at it , but he himself found it ‘ rather sad … to say it is stranger than fiction is an understatement . ’ |
| 2 | The story may be embroidered but Ince Castle , for many years the home of the Killigrew family , stood ( until a disastrous fire in 1988 ) isolated on its peninsular , its oblong castellated building with its four identical towers , one on each corner , perhaps bearing silent witness to a story that is stranger than fiction . |
| 3 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 4 | Sometimes their life stories are so unusual that truth is stranger than fiction . |
| 5 | You might say reality is stranger than fiction . |
| 6 | ‘ In my job , old boy , I 've learned that truth is stranger than fiction by a long way . ’ |
| 7 | Life , Ellis seems to be saying , is smaller than fiction . |