How to Use fanciful in a Sentence

fanciful

adjective

• They gave all their children fanciful names.
• 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
• Okay, so the fanciful Dyson Sphere appears to defy the laws of physics.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2020
• 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
• And there’s a loose, jazzy verve to the production, a sort of sonic and visual razzmatazz that gives the film a fanciful Oceans 11-style gloss.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• 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
• The day of the fitting started off sweet: We were served fanciful fruit desserts and a bottle of bubbly.
  — Jessie Heyman, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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
• On the other hand the amount of money that crypto donors are piling in to the election is anything but fanciful.
  — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• Doug and Kris Tompkins’ dream sounded like a fanciful one.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Mar. 2023
• Your film has that quality as well — this sense that the stories of the past, however fanciful, are still present.
  — Vulture, 2 Sep. 2022
• The creation of the US Space Force has conjured up all manner of fanciful notions about combat in space.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2020
• Was the doll in her fanciful dress meant to mimic the widow of Isidore Atlas, or was the widow purposefully got up like the doll?
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• In the last room, alongside the fanciful maps, divine figures return.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
• Trump's new claim that Tehran will beg him for a deal that satisfies his terms after the elections is fanciful.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024