How to Use flight of fancy/imagination/fantasy in a Sentence

flight of fancy/imagination/fantasy

noun phrase
  • In the region, the statement was not taken as just a flight of fancy.
    Joshua Keating, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Xpeng's own flight of fancy, however, is designed to take to the roads as well as the air.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Meredith’s mental beach trip wasn’t some fleeting flight of fancy.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Project Lyra is still a flight of fancy, without any funding or government agency to back it up.
    Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2020
  • With the time frame set so far in the future, the i Vision Circular may just seem like a flight of fancy.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 6 Sep. 2021
  • This flight of fantasy informed a hundred press reports on Friday.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • Peter Sellers couldn’t have concocted a more deranged flight of fancy.
    Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
  • For Buffett, escapism was not merely something fun, some fiddling flight of fancy that can be taken up or discarded at will.
    Drew M. Dalton, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • An untethered flight of fancy from Cosmos, in which astronauts set out to explore a Titan-like moon of a giant alien world.
    Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
  • In the other, which is the movie’s only true flight of fancy, Dar dreams of her dog befriending a Palestinian boy who has to hide from the bombs being dropped around him.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
  • In the afternoon, continue your flight of fancy into Andersen’s astounding world.
    Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Take Lady Gaga’s transformation into a vintage 1950s chanteuse during her trip to New York, which might seem like a flight of fancy.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 5 July 2021
  • The eight equally far-out stories here — each one its own deadpan flight of fancy, sly and strange — explore everything from a house filled with 100 ex-boyfriends to a drug that turns the user ecstatically invisible.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2022
  • This may be more than a flight of fancy, however, as the production EV9 does have swiveling rear seat and something of the sort could make its way into the final version of the EV5 as well.
    Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 20 Mar. 2023
  • As Beekman shared his vision Thursday during a Zoom call with reporters, everyone listening was transported back eight months to a different time, when this flight of fancy Beekman described was the norm so many took for granted.
    Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2020
  • As their twin narratives continue, Auburn jostles audience expectations, steering the story away from potentially melodramatic plot points, eschewing sentimentality — even offering a flight of fancy or two.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023

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