How To Use Fancier In A Sentence
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The building used to look a bit fancier, and much more decorative, but it was never rebuilt.
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Girls may be given fancier names because this fits in with a traditionally feminine image.
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I harbour no suspicion of its verity; for marvellous things have been told me, by my brother, of the whimsical phrensies of book-fanciers.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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They even took a good portion of the fancier meats like mutton, quail, and deer.
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Instead, the message should be reinforced that simple dishes such as grilled fish, wholemeal rice and carrots can be just as healthy as fancier fare.
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She tries to hold on to as much genuine stuff as she can while pandering to fancier tastes.
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The owner Juan Blanco then pulls out all the stops, with simply cooked but sparklingly fresh fish that would put a much fancier restaurant to shame.
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Tasers are supposed to be a replacement for other and more damaging plod tactics such as bludgeoning, pepper-spraying or choking suspects into compliance, so it's important to be able to use them on meth fanciers.
The Register
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Entomologists, nutritionists and other insect fanciers scoff at Westerners' bias against bugs.
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In a late '70s newsletter to prospective ocicat fanciers, Daly explained that one reason for the breed's spotty progress was a pet limitation ordinance passed by the town council where she lived.
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(link) Sounds like those were quite a bit fancier than the ones you find in grungy bar restrooms (which I figure were always done to the height of whatever guy cut the hole).
Ceciliatan: People Are Strange When You’re A Stranger
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Now crossword fanciers know that there are words for things that crossword setters just always use.
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And coupled with Chabon's obvious joy with the English language, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a word fancier's delight.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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You might even want to throw in some fancier accordion pleats or other folds to make your shapes come to life.
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A recent report of poisoned pigeons being found pegged out close to Peregrine eyries in Wales was almost certainly the work of pigeon fanciers.
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All but the most ardent rodent fanciers would consider this a highly unpleasant ordeal.
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Intelligent design is just a repackaging of the same religious dogma using fancier, multisyllable words.
HS Blog - Homeschool Blog
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Because of dog fanciers' inclination to breed their bitches to current winners, his selections wielded a great influence on the development of the German shepherd breed.
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Its been estimated by some pigeon fanciers that there as many as 500 wild pigeons in the town centre.
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This spirit is said to burn with still fiercer flame in the breasts of those whose pursuit would externally seem to be the most innocent in the world, and the least excitive of the bad passions -- namely, among flower-fanciers.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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Fancier dehydrators, with heat regulators and fans to circulate the air, work faster, but the price can zoom to several hundred dollars for serious preserving tools.
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She doesn't necessarily think it's a problem that these events are getting "fancier" - which is a weird way to put it - and she's not sure if the law needs to be changed; really, it comes down to who is doing the invitation, and why.
Macleans.ca
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Looking at last year’s pictures, I see that most guys were wearing button-down shirts and slacks, with a few (like Chad) in fancier duds.
Waldo Jaquith - Blog Summit attendees.
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And then, you will want to do things like exhibit beast at fatstock shows, or take your dog to sheepdog trials, or have the local primary school come to the lambing, or open up your woodland for butterfly fanciers, or welcome the hunt across your fields.
I’m Here For An Argument. No You’re Not! Yes I am! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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And if you want to dine with them, albeit in fancier digs, they’ll also be speaking at a fund-raising dinner to benefit Arts & Lectures at the Palace Ballroom Monday night.
Michael Pollan Interview
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it's kind of like oilcloth, but a bit sturdier and fancier i think. it's european, hence the priciness! and it's cotton fabric that's coated, practically saturated, with plastic/vinyl coating.
I need to stop shopping..... but then i'd miss amazing things!
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Entomologists, nutritionists and other insect fanciers scoff at Westerners' bias against bugs.
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Fancier edge stitches could include binding with Lycra, blanket stitch, pinking, overcast with the serger, or turning under and stitching.
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The fanciers, from whom most yellows come, ordinarily keep few agouti mice.
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Gourmand has taken on an even fancier ring than gourmet, while the word glutton can be applied only to someone who eats an enormous amount of food at one sitting — usually cheap food, and with the standard of what constitutes “enormous” revised upward each year for obvious reasons.
Hard to Swallow
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That we think it's OK for some people to have their lives turned inside out, sometimes twice or thrice over, so that some other and always much fancier people can live well?
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Post-war concerns about breed purity became academic as cat fanciers scrambled to make whatever judicious compromises they could in order to insure the survival of their chosen breeds.
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Elsewhere, gun fanciers can pay as much as 1,000 for 800 rounds of ammunition to blast away at a motley variety of banged-up cars, buses and boats with a .50-calibre heavy machine gun.
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The chikor, however, is certainly far superior in the capacity of what fowl fanciers call "a table bird," being, in fact, truly excellent eating.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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Fanciers are all aflutter after the first pigeons in Ireland were dope tested recently.
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If you're looking to get a little fancier, try the pork chop or the lamb cutlets.
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Sir Richard was looking at me intently, like a fancier examining a prize pigeon.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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Given a choice between a plain trade paperback like this version of On the Road and a fancier one with a cover that imitates that of a hardcover and deckel-edged pages, people almost invariably choose the fancy one, even if it costs $3 more.
One thing I don't have to worry about.
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To find a purebred cat, you may start with the Cat Fancier's Association.
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The tadpole fancier is expert at the art of low politics.
Racist Slur At Boris
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Perhaps the first pouter-pigeon did not inflate its crop much more than the turbit now does the upper part of its oesophagus, — a habit which is disregarded by all fanciers, as it is not one of the points of the breed.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 01 (historical)
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Two men in cotton field costume, blacked up and gloved, paraded foolishly behind a third, as equally painted about the face, but dressed up fancier than any untitled lord you'd meet up in Washington at that time.
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[S] hould appeal to hard-boiled fans and canine fanciers alike.
Dog On It by Spencer Quinn: Book summary
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Fancier edge stitches could include binding with Lycra, blanket stitch, pinking, overcast with the serger, or turning under and stitching.
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They became fancier as the pike and tuck positions began to dominate , making somersaults possible.
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I find myself having to tell my students to unlearn this tendency by, among others, asking them to throw their thesaurus away, especially when the only reason they turn to it is to find a fancier word for something as basic as “talk” (expostulate?) or “walk” (perambulate?)
Archive 2010-03-01
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That's the open-air office, the egalitarian "bullpen" that Bloomberg, whose spare cubicle is no fancier than any of his underlings, brought to City Hall.
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'Occasional Supper Clubs', as they have been quaintly dubbed, are clandestine gatherings of food-fanciers.
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Tindell says that he's noticed fewer and fewer drivers filling up with anything fancier than regular unleaded.
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Chocolate fanciers should choose the ganache, lemonheads the very tart tarte.
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Other manufacturers may make rifles with fancier stocks, brighter bluing, better checkering and polishing.
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The Bird Watching Team and parrot fanciers around the country are very excited.
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Perhaps the first pouter-pigeon did not inflate its crop much more than the turbit now does the upper part of its sophagus, a habit which is disregarded by all fanciers, as it is not one of the points of the breed.
I. Variation under Domestication. Unconscious Selection
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Nuclear disarmers are right in saying that a test ban would stop weapons builders trying out new and fancier designs.
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Discreet "feijoada" fanciers follow this with nothing stronger than mineral water.
Rio De Janeiro
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Fancier edge stitches could include binding with lycra, blanket stitch, pinking, overcast with the serger, or turning under and stitching.
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We tried a bottle of 2002 Bel Colle Moscato d'Asti, which is slightly fancier version of Asti Spumonte: slightly less sweet, costing slightly more $12 to $15, and slightly less sparkling.
September 2004
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`I was in the kitchen when it happened," said the rabbit fancier.
FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
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Another large class of birds that make fine pets although they are not strictly in the class of birds bred by the fancier are the ornamental land and water fowl.
Outdoor Sports and Games
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But the more evident marauder is pigeons, thanks to the sandwich crusts left by lunchers and the feed spread by misguided bird fanciers.
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Most of us find them unattractive, though there are thousands of rodent fanciers who dote on their well-groomed rat-pets.
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I'm still chugging away at my SNES, Nintendo DS, and Playstation 2 as I daydream about these fancier, spiffier game machines and what they can offer me in terms of freedom.
Top 10 Videogames Not Played in 2008
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The latest craze among dog fanciers: Poodles crossed with other breeds.
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She says that the documentary is disappointing and that the depiction of the zoophiles as quasi-mystical animal fanciers is strangely sympathetic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Girls may be given fancier names because this fits in with a traditionally feminine image.
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There are two main schools of thought with tarte au citron – ordinary sweet shortcrust pastry, which is flaky and crumbly, or pâte sucrée, which is much fancier, and thus difficult to make, thanks to the high fat content, but which gives a more delicate, crisp result.
How to cook perfect tarte au citron
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Throughout the late 1800s, English dog fanciers became increasingly fascinated with breeds indigenous to the European continent.
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You might even want to throw in some fancier accordion pleats or other folds to make your shapes come to life.
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Between the arms of the cross, the fancier pendants had the image of a flower of French origins, the fleur-de-lys which represented the Trinity.
Archive 2009-05-01
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So far this is mostly equipment and supplies shipped overseas for fish fanciers and wholesalers, and Qian Hu has invested in aquarium-gear providers in the U.K. and India.
Swimming Upstream
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Why not also indulge the pleasure of reading about fancier meals and faraway places?
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The highly desirables will be ferried around in cars and put up in the fancier type of chain hotel.
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Book-fanciers now and then bid a few shillings, for a copy of the catalogue of his library; and some sly free-thinkers, of modern date, are not backward in shewing a sympathy in their predecessor's fame, by the readiness with which they bid a half-guinea, or more, for a _priced copy_ of it.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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The purebreds that competed in Best In Show last year are widely acknowledged among fanciers to be the greatest single lineup in Westminster history, according to Frei.
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Its coaches will make more money, and its players will get bigger and shinier facilities, fancier menus, cushier dorms, more stylish travel arrangements and other perks.
A pro agent's case for paying college football players
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The fancier ones run about $100, with considerable tooling, and the really ornate ones, with dead serpents, reptiles, aardvark, cota-mundi, or poodle skin can go over that.
Why Good Knives Need Good Sheaths
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About 100 cases occur each year in pet shop owners, poultry raisers, poultry processing plant employees, pigeon fanciers, taxidermists, and zoo attendants.
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It allows Wood to make the same kind of criticism that has always been made of Updike, but to dress it up in fancier crittalk ( "free indirect style"): Updike is too besotted with language.
Updike, John
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When the Thompson Female Seminary graduated my mother in June of 1939, my mother was hurt to realize that the Dairy School had already had its graduation and was closed; the fancier, out-of-town boys had gone home, and her two or three 'beaus' (as she called them) — who she might have hoped would ask her to her own graduation dance — were gone.
The Hotel New Hampshire
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For the mushroom fancier the game is now on, with every shape and variety on local stalls, wild boar and young kid appear on the menu and the valleys resound to the huntsman's gun and partridge and quail hang from cottage doorways.