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Example sentences for "fancy"

Lexicographically close words:
fancies; fanciest; fanciful; fancifully; fancifulness; fancying; fancywork; fand; fandango; fanega
  1. Figure 4 represents a bonnet of white satin, covered with two rows of white lace, divided with a double row of fancy light green ribbon, and decorated with white daisies in the interior.

  2. I have some recollection of the sun, and when I lift up my eyes toward the point in the heavens where it should be, I can almost fancy I see a globe, which reminds me of its color.

  3. The lonely tower Is also shunn'd; whose mournful chambers hold, So night-struck fancy dreams, the yelling ghost.

  4. He saw that my fancy was taken up elsewhere, and the first part of his plot was, to prejudice and poison my father's mind against his rival.

  5. The sad idea of his murder'd mate, Struck from his side by savage fowler's guile Across his fancy comes; and then resounds A louder song of sorrow through the grove.

  6. A voice, than human more, the abstracted ear Of fancy strikes, "Be not of us afraid, Poor kindred man!

  7. It was probably the blue yellow-backed warbler, as I have since found this to be a common bird in those woods; but to my young fancy it seemed like some fairy bird, so curiously marked was it, and so new and unexpected.

  8. I fancy he knows it already," said LeGrand Blossom.

  9. But Higgins is sixty at least, and I fancy his wife's too old to be--" A warning look checked him.

  10. There, to her half-closed eyes, the grass seemed like a fairy forest, soon peopled by her fancy, the fancy of a girl who still retained the quick imagination of a child.

  11. It must have been a vision, the mere fancy of an old man's mind.

  12. A remarkable incident is stated to have taken place at Lady B----'s fancy dress ball.

  13. It is engendered in the eyes, With gazing fed: and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

  14. Tell me, where is fancy bred; Or in the heart, or in the head?

  15. Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others.

  16. She's all my fancy painted her; She's lovely, she's divine.

  17. In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

  18. Opera soon formed an important feature in court festivals, and it became customary to give the text a reference to the festival or person honoured by turning it into an allegory, in which poetical fancy vied with personal flattery.

  19. I could fancy myself in intercourse with the man himself as I lived his life again letter by letter.

  20. When alone (that is with merely the home guests), she says they frequently wear some fancy costume at dinner.

  21. My dear Mrs. Tompkins, you honor me too much; believe me, 'tis but a passing fancy on your part.

  22. I thought them all in love with me; I know men well enough since to be aware that their love was winged, and lighted where fancy willed, and pour passer le temps.

  23. The fancy of a woman a present," thought Trevalyon.

  24. Just fancy my home, a lone isle of the sea.

  25. Fancy my toots being used to caulk a leak!

  26. Fancy asking a young lady to waltz, and then going dot-and-go-one round the room with your game leg.

  27. The forest on each side is so dense that I don't fancy they can get along any faster than we do.

  28. But I don't fancy they would be down here where other people might talk about them.

  29. I fancy that I must have been growing half hysterical as the scene grew and grew before me, till I had pictured one poor wretch clinging in his despair to the edge of the stern window, and shrieking for help.

  30. You wait till you get your wound, and then see how you'll begin to fancy all sorts of things.

  31. Only wish Isabel had drawn a man like John instead of the rotter she took a fancy to marry.

  32. This last sentence was addressed especially to the sea-captain and me, the idiomatical English in which the passing fancy of the speaker found expression being wholly unintelligible to all except ourselves.

  33. There is a great deal of nonsense mixed up with our literature, which seizes the fancy of the young, because embodied in poetry, or clothed with the charm of fiction.

  34. They fancy that such an experiment can be carried out in a mere mechanical way without careful study of all the conditions and accompanying circumstances.

  35. The only thing I'd like to know about you," she answered, "is why you have taken so sudden a fancy to my son?

  36. Thank Heaven, she didn't take a fancy to Mr. O'Hara.

  37. Of course, if I'd ever dreamed she had a fancy for Billy, I'd have kept him out of her sight instead of allowing him to paint her portrait whenever she had any time she could spare.

  38. But, after all, it may be only a fancy of Archibald's.

  39. The bluest eyes in the world, she told herself sternly, could not trouble her fancy to-day, nor could the wildest romance quicken her pulses.

  40. For a few minutes she allowed her fancy to play with the comforting memory of Arthur's devotion--with the image of her photograph on his bureau and the single rose in the vase he kept always before it.

  41. I believe Jane would be really pleased if he were to take a fancy to Margaret, but I don't think there is the faintest chance of it, for his Cousin Lizzie told me last winter that she couldn't mention your name in his presence.

  42. It is of no immediate interest to any one but Ophelia, and I fancy she does not care to dwell upon it at any great length.

  43. I fancy that I know enough about Paris to find my way about.

  44. I fancy there's fish enough in the sea to feed 'em; and as for their gowns and hats, they can make 'em themselves.

  45. I fancy it will not take us long to establish our initial point, which is that the gross person who has so foully appropriated your property to his own base uses does not contemplate removing it from its keel and placing it somewhere inland.

  46. I fancy we can get along without that," said Portia.

  47. I fancy that his illustrious tongue disdained to trifle.

  48. She has no resemblance to the portrait in the gallery; and as she was stark mad, when found in the woods, she perhaps imagined herself my mother; for I am told that mad persons are apt to fancy themselves great people.

  49. Pray,' said he, laughing, 'what was your fancy for telling me that you were ruined?

  50. There, child, now fancy yourself stabbed, and come to breakfast.

  51. But how the deuce the girl could bring herself to fancy you,' cried Wilkinson, 'that is what shocks me most.

  52. Now, if they fall, I must fall with them; and I fancy they have seen the best of their days already.

  53. So now, hearties, all you have to do is to club your sticks, and fancy yourselves at Ballinasloe; and never heed me if we havn't a nice comfortable fight of it.

  54. If I could lock myself up in a room, with heaps of romances, and shut out all the world, I sometimes fancy that I should be happy.

  55. A lane was soon formed of the guests; and fancy my feelings, when I beheld the promised procession entering!

  56. Nor would our Captain offer any other explanation for so odd a freak of fancy than to say that it pleased him to do as he chose with his own.

  57. She already possessed a great deal of experience in teasing the other sex with those delicious though innocent torments that cause the eyes of the victim to remain awake at night and the fancy to dream throughout the day.

  58. And then the vision would fade, and she would fancy herself in the wood, arguing once again with Mrs. Lawler.

  59. Just fancy going to all this expense to be kissed by the Lord-Lieutenant--a man one never saw before.

  60. No one ever attempted to kiss you, I suppose; nor can I fancy their trying, for your cross face would soon frighten them; but I can't look serious.

  61. Nor was the dawning fancy dispelled by the fact that Harding had not proposed, and the cutting words she had addressed to the girl were the result of the nervous irritation caused by the marked attention the Marquis was paying Violet Scully.

  62. Yes, but that is just the reason; just fancy dressing oneself up in the costume of a bygone time.

  63. Just fancy a priest allowing his chapel to be turned into a political--political what shall I call it?

  64. Just fancy marrying a man with a little dirty crowd of illegitimate children running about the stable-yard!

  65. A sick fancy of worn-out nerves, of course, but pleasant all the same.

  66. Courtland read it and looked dreamily out of the window, trying to fancy Bonnie in her new home.

  67. I fancy you will find that a rather difficult matter!

  68. Would everybody you didn't fancy turn out that way if you once got hold of the key of their souls and opened the door?

  69. No man before had caught her fancy and held it like this rare one.

  70. Up to this time even his experience with the Presence had not touched this philosophy of his which he had constructed like a fancy scaffolding inside of which he expected to fashion his life.

  71. Kate did not fancy the appearance of the jug, and she wreathed it with strings of glittering glass balls; and the shoulder of bacon she stuck full of red berries and holly-leaves.

  72. But the rest of the team did not fancy going so fast on level ground, and they slackened their pace.

  73. She is the wife of a diplomatist who neglects her, it seems, in spite of her great beauty; and last year there was a deal of talk about her fancy for a young colonel who is well known in Parisian society.

  74. Then the doctor resumed: "I will tell you of a fancy which has often haunted me.

  75. So saying, he untied a bundle, out of which he took the fancy costume of a waterman, and proceeded to dress himself in it.

  76. One can fancy the whole passage spoken by an orator; indeed it is difficult to resist the illusion that it was "declaimed" before it was written.

  77. Interesting works they are; full of vigour, beauty, and ardent conception; and it is wonderful that so much art and fancy could be thrown into what is in substance polemical pamphleteering.

  78. He often gets verbose, rings the changes on a point which he sees to have caught his hearers; he plays with a fancy out of measure, and turns his jest inside out and over and over, like a fine comic actor when the house is in a roar.

  79. Of the three stories she published, two are autobiographies, and the third is a fancy portrait of her sister Emily.

  80. Next moment he sawed the fancy across with a grin.

  81. In the washstand drawer was Olsen's registration book--fancy Olsen's leaving it there!

  82. He stumbled in amongst them, and took a drink of water from the tap, not so much from thirst, but more from a fancy to use his familiar knowledge of the place.

  83. I've taken a fancy to you, the way you stand there modestly as could be.

  84. I fancy I saw some stuff under that bush in the corner.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fancy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandoned; accept; adept; admiration; adoration; adore; adorned; adroit; affection; affinity; agape; ambition; ambitious; animus; apparition; appetite; apprehension; apt; ardor; artistic; assume; attachment; authoritative; awful; bag; baroque; bee; befrilled; believe; bent; bias; boundless; bravura; brilliant; bubble; busy; caprice; care; charity; chimera; choice; choose; classy; clean; clever; coin; colored; command; complicated; conceit; conceive; concept; conception; conceptualize; conclude; concoct; concupiscence; conjecture; consider; coordinated; crack; crank; craze; create; crotchet; cunning; curiosity; cute; cutthroat; daedal; daresay; dear; decision; decorated; deduce; deem; deft; delirium; delusion; desire; determination; device; devotion; dexterous; dextrous; diplomatic; discretion; disposition; divine; dote; dream; drive; eagerness; egregious; eidolon; elaborate; elegant; embellished; embroidered; enjoin; enjoy; enormous; envisage; envision; esteem; estimate; exacting; exaggerated; excellent; excessive; exorbitant; expect; expensive; expert; extortionate; extravagant; extreme; fabricate; fabulous; fad; fancy; fantasy; fascination; favor; feel; fervor; festooned; fiction; figment; figurative; figured; fine; flamboyant; flame; flash; florid; flowery; fondness; freak; frilly; fussy; gather; gigantic; glorious; gluttonous; good; gouge; graceful; grand; grandiose; grant; guess; hallucination; handy; hanker; hatch; heart; high; hold; hope; humor; idea; ideal; idolatry; illusion; image; imagery; imagination; imagine; immoderate; imposing; impression; impressive; inclination; incontinent; infer; inflationary; ingenious; inordinate; inspiration; instinct; intemperate; intention; intricate; invent; invention; judge; kink; labored; leaning; let; libido; like; liking; lofty; long; longing; love; lovemaking; lush; lust; luxuriant; luxurious; maggot; magisterial; magnificent; maintain; majestic; make; mania; masterful; mind; mold; monstrous; myth; neat; need; noble; notion; objective; observation; opine; opinion; originate; ornate; ostentatious; outrageous; overgrown; overloaded; overmuch; overweening; overworked; overwrought; palatial; pander; partiality; passion; penchant; perception; phantasm; phantom; picture; picturesque; pleasure; plush; politic; popularity; prank; predilection; predisposition; prefer; preference; prefigure; prejudice; premium; prepossession; preposterous; presume; presuppose; pretentious; princely; proclivity; produce; professional; proficient; prohibitive; propensity; proud; purple; quick; rage; ready; realize; reckon; reflection; reflex; regard; relish; representation; repute; resolution; resourceful; rich; rococo; romance; say; sentiment; sex; shape; shine; showy; skillful; slick; some; spiraling; splendid; splendiferous; stately; statesmanlike; steep; stiff; style; stylish; sumptuous; superb; superfine; suppose; supposition; surmise; suspect; swank; swanky; swell; sympathy; tactful; take; taste; tendency; theory; thing; think; thirst; thought; top; toy; trip; turn; type; unbridled; unconscionable; understand; undue; unreasonable; unrestrained; unwarranted; urge; usurious; vagary; vapor; virtuoso; vision; visualize; volition; want; way; weakness; whim; whimsy; will; workmanlike; worship; yearn; yearning


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fancy ball; fancy dress; fancy shapes; fancy that; fancy work