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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Maybe readers loved a fanciful tale when George Davis was writing.
  — cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
• Kids will love that the actual box also doubles as a backdrop to make all kinds of fanciful scenes.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 31 Oct. 2023
• The fanciful film ends on a note of affirmation and a bit of self-mythologizing.
  — Simi Horwitz, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2022
• Or, in layman’s terms, a fanciful term for a knight (like one from Fairleigh Dickinson).
  — Scott Miller, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• Among these works is a cycle based on the life of Saint Ursula, subject of one of the more elaborate and fanciful legends of the Middle Ages.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
• Gohar’s work is fanciful with an edge; ornate but naïve, and often aware of its own excess.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2022
• And the raw bar would go on to offer such fanciful starters as bluefin tuna splashed with ginger-lime vinaigrette and presented in shiso wraps.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• Especially since the photos released by the brand suggest the car is more than just a fanciful concept.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2022
• The four corners are finished with blue tassels—a fanciful flourish.
  — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2023
• More than a fanciful romance between two teenage lovers, Girls Will Be Girls is about gendered power.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024