How to Use "illusory" with Example Sentences

1. Some of europe 's fiscal improvements were illusory , however .

2. Just as the threat of weapons of mass destruction proved illusory in iraq , so the sinking of the battleship uss maine in havana harbour , the pretext for intervention in cuba , was not a spanish plot but , he insists , almost certainly a shipboard accident .

3. Inventing an illusory problem can only distract from the important job of addressing the real ones .

4. If that factor is so elusive , who is to say it isn 't entirely illusory ?

5. Shareholders of banks were raped by the staff , who paid themselves extravagant sums out of illusory profits .