FANCIED in a Sentence
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231 example sentences for FANCIED, such as:
1. I fancied a change of scene.
2. I like simple food better than fancy dishes.
3. I want a plain black jumper with no fancy trimmings.
4. She didn't fancy the idea of going home in the dark.
5. I think he would come but it's only a fancy of mine.
2. I like simple food better than fancy dishes.
3. I want a plain black jumper with no fancy trimmings.
4. She didn't fancy the idea of going home in the dark.
5. I think he would come but it's only a fancy of mine.
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Meanings and Examples of FANCIED
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fancy
n. capricious notion; something many people believe that is false
fanciful
a. not based on fact; unreal
a. indulging in or influenced by fancy
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 When these thoughts possessed me, I would not quit Henry for a moment, but followed him as his shadow, to protect him from the fancied rage of his destroyer.
2 They fancied him the mouth-piece of Heaven's messages of wisdom, and rebuke, and love.
3 But she fancied me asleep while she was talking of it.
4 Your sister, I hope, cannot be offended," said he, "by the resemblance I have fancied between her and my poor disgraced relation.
5 Elinor sighed over the fancied necessity of this; but to a man and a soldier she presumed not to censure it.
6 Her mind was so much weakened that she still fancied present exertion impossible, and therefore it only dispirited her more.
7 She sighed for the air, the liberty, the quiet of the country; and fancied that if any place could give her ease, Barton must do it.
8 Until she opened the side entrance, I had fancied, without thinking about it, that it must necessarily be night-time.
9 I fancied that I could detect in his manner a consciousness of this, and a purpose of always holding her in suspense.
10 I fancied, as I looked at her, that I slipped hopelessly back into the coarse and common boy again.
11 When the rain came with it and dashed against the windows, I thought, raising my eyes to them as they rocked, that I might have fancied myself in a storm-beaten lighthouse.
12 A childish association revived with wonderful force in the moment of the slight action, and I fancied that I saw Miss Havisham hanging to the beam.
13 My burning arm throbbed, and my burning head throbbed, and I fancied I was beginning to wander.
14 I was slow to gain strength, but I did slowly and surely become less weak, and Joe stayed with me, and I fancied I was little Pip again.
15 Long after I ought to have heard it, and long after I had fancied I heard it and found it but a fancy, all was still.
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
2 I fancied a change of scene.
3 Many of the dancers at the fancy dress ball wore colourful masks.
4 People in western countries sometimes went to the party in fancy dress.
5 I want a plain black jumper with no fancy trimmings.
6 I think he would come but it's only a fancy of mine.
7 The England keeper revealed some fancy footwork in the victory over Nottingham Forest.
8 She didn't fancy the idea of going home in the dark.
9 Love does not involve giving fancy parcels tied up with big red bows.
10 Because of its high cost, a carpet is not an item that you change as the fancy takes you.
11 I rather fancy the Antipodes for a holiday this summer.
12 I like simple food better than fancy dishes.
13 For it was at that hour of a warm afternoon when my fancy is able to hear the silent voices.
14 She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like.
15 The goal we found out is to translate a fancy routine story into a simple routine with the same story in syllabus steps.