How to Use fanciful in a Sentence

fanciful

adjective

• They gave all their children fanciful names.
• And both the policing and the lawyering in the episode are fanciful at best.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
• Rings is far more fanciful, full of elves, dwarves, orcs, and the like.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
• But next spring, the thought that the iPhone 16e will be replaced by the iPhone 17e seems fanciful to me.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
• But the idea that the vote could lead to an exit from the euro looks fanciful.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Will a fanciful circus about a clown’s dream get you out of a March funk?
  — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2022
• Okay, so the fanciful Dyson Sphere appears to defy the laws of physics.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2020
• Okay, so the fanciful Dyson Sphere appears to defy the laws of physics.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2020
• That’s not even the most fanciful twist in Homestead’s plans, though.
  — Andres Viglucci and Monique O. Madan, miamiherald, 20 Aug. 2017
• The ensembles on the runway are as fanciful as the fetes, with equal frills and sparkle.
  — Vogue, 2 July 2018
• The fanciful Curse of the Bambino was in great measure among those players the Curse of the Colonel.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 14 July 2017
• For starters, consider the size of the fanciful Nibiru.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 19 Sep. 2017
• This is a fanciful scenario of what the IEA hopes can be rather than what is likely to be.
  — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
• The motif then repeats in the fanciful purse’s square buckle and lock.
  — Saryn Chorney, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2023
• The fanciful notion that the U.K. can define the terms of its own deal has been widely ridiculed both home and abroad.
  — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 6 Apr. 2017
• Those ideas, for what else the wall might do or be, manage to be at once fanciful and vapid.
  — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
• Again, not on topic, but the coupling of cake and mousse brings to mind a fluffier, more fanciful Reese’s.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• The most artful dessert is the Swiss roll, a fanciful riff on Ho Hos that gives chocolate lovers more than their fix.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
• What is meant to be fanciful can feel tedious at times.
  — Elizabeth Toohey, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2025
• What is meant to be fanciful can feel tedious at times.
  — Elizabeth Toohey, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2025
• The Buckeyes in the top 10 was always a bit fanciful, and they've been overranked by the AP while squeezing out a No.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Some are more fanciful, such as an array of steel moon sculptures by the artist Jeff Koons.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2024
• If that all sounds a bit fanciful, well, that’s just the nature of nature in Iceland.
  — Yael Martínez, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
• The trend goes beyond the fanciful discs to include shiny lamé, too, which was spotted at Tom Ford.
  — Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2022
• The whole thing is absurdly fanciful, a lark—that name!
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2022
• To a public raised on fanciful tales of Mars as harsh but habitable land, the views came as a shock.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2021
• And there’s a loose, jazzy verve to the production, a sort of sonic and visual razzmatazz that gives the film a fanciful Oceans 11-style gloss.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• That isn’t quite enough of a subject to fill 90 minutes, and the film’s last half-hour is more fanciful, more clichéd and less gripping than the rest of it.
  — The Economist, 18 June 2020
• But his standing quickly unraveled as he was exposed for a slew of fanciful lies during his campaign about his background.
  — Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 9 May 2025
• However, a fanciful title charge would collapse in November and early December in a period where Spurs picked up one point from five league matches.
  — Elias Burke, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025