How to Use fanciful in a Sentence

fanciful

adjective

• They gave all their children fanciful names.
• Read on for the facts that inspired this fanciful interlude.
  — cleveland, 18 Jan. 2021
• Other fitness video games offer a more fanciful backdrop for working out.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 17 Dec. 2020
• In truth, these fun, fanciful and at times poetic terms are not used by bird scientists or naturalists.
  — Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
• Within that quirky but largely down-to-earth world, Rothwell adds some fanciful elements.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2024
• Descriptions of the shape of the coming recovery became more fanciful.
  — Catarina Saraiva, Bloomberg.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• The Wedding Tiers Tears of joy and tiers of fanciful fabric are wonderful on your wedding day.
  — Julie Tong, Vogue, 1 July 2024
• Amid this Trumpian meltdown, the fanciful thought even arises that a new and better politics might emerge from last week's bottoming-out.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2021
• Bobble hats were originally created to protect and pad sailor’s heads though now their primary function is fanciful fun.
  — Carsen Joenk, Popular Science, 20 Jan. 2021
• Finally, fanciful spending increases are out of touch with a looming budget crisis poised to further squeeze vital state services.
  — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2020
• Each of the chairs, hand-carved and painted by a former Disney artist, features a different circus animal — a lion here, a zebra there — adding to the fanciful atmosphere.
  — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• And both the policing and the lawyering in the episode are fanciful at best.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
• Rings is far more fanciful, full of elves, dwarves, orcs, and the like.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
• Will a fanciful circus about a clown’s dream get you out of a March funk?
  — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2022
• The motif then repeats in the fanciful purse’s square buckle and lock.
  — Saryn Chorney, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2023
• Again, not on topic, but the coupling of cake and mousse brings to mind a fluffier, more fanciful Reese’s.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• Some are more fanciful, such as an array of steel moon sculptures by the artist Jeff Koons.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2024
• If that all sounds a bit fanciful, well, that’s just the nature of nature in Iceland.
  — Yael Martínez, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
• The trend goes beyond the fanciful discs to include shiny lamé, too, which was spotted at Tom Ford.
  — Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2022
• The whole thing is absurdly fanciful, a lark—that name!
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2022
• To a public raised on fanciful tales of Mars as harsh but habitable land, the views came as a shock.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2021
• If there is a place to see and be seen in Abu Dhabi, sitting under the fanciful string lights on this patio might just top the list.
  — Ann Marie McQueen, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Nov. 2023
• Surely the novelty of the fanciful cat costumes has worn off by now.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
• About a decade ago, some of this might have sounded like a fanciful tale or wishful thinking.
  — Pramod Konandur Prabhakar, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• Fifty years ago, though, that outcome seemed fanciful at best.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• Try a body-skimming maxi skirt in a fanciful floral print.
  — Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 14 June 2024
• The younger boys' bedroom may include the most fanciful bunk bed ever.
  — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 May 2021
• This will turn out to be just a dream Dick’s having in jail, but his waking life looks hardly less fanciful.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2024
• Making a living as a creator is no longer such a fanciful idea.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2022
• Once the exceptions start, more will get in line, and the estimate of a revenue gain will look even more fanciful.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 May 2021

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024