fanciful

How To Use fanciful In A Sentence

• How many times has something as fanciful as a unicorn, a yeti, a mermaid or a werewolf turned out to be based on fact?
• Not so long ago, the major film critics in the U.S. fancifully tossed around the idea of the ‘death of cinema.’
• Maxwell did not mention the banana theory but he dismissed the numerous theories and meanings ascribed to the name Sabah in published literature as "fanciful suggestions" because there was a lack of supporting evidence. Undefined
• Or a place in which the fanciful is allowed to commingle with reality. Words, words | clusterflock
• The fountain illustrated, an exquisite piece of Gothic architecture in miniature, was designed to be both fanciful and functional.
• They, too, have the richly overembellished rooflines; they, too, have achieved a fanciful arrangement of spaces possible only through centuries of adding structure onto structure onto ruin. Inside, Outside, Upside Down (And Inside Out)
• She tempers my more fanciful ideas on a daily basis. Times, Sunday Times
• Not only was this rather fanciful with six mouths to feed, but I ended up spending a fortune at the local farm shop. Times, Sunday Times
• The about section of her web site is full of fanciful garble about her consulting work.
• The last chukka saw both teams go all out and play some very fanciful and accurate polo, raising the excitement to a fevered pitch.