How to Use flight of fancy/imagination/fantasy in a Sentence

flight of fancy/imagination/fantasy

noun phrase

• Xpeng's own flight of fancy, however, is designed to take to the roads as well as the air.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2021
• With the time frame set so far in the future, the i Vision Circular may just seem like a flight of fancy.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 6 Sep. 2021
• And that brings us to the other place Vettel’s flight of fancy and reality collide: the track itself.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2022
• Meredith’s mental beach trip wasn’t some fleeting flight of fancy.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• This may be more than a flight of fancy, however, as the production EV9 does have swiveling rear seat and something of the sort could make its way into the final version of the EV5 as well.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 20 Mar. 2023
• Take Lady Gaga’s transformation into a vintage 1950s chanteuse during her trip to New York, which might seem like a flight of fancy.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 5 July 2021
• An untethered flight of fancy from Cosmos, in which astronauts set out to explore a Titan-like moon of a giant alien world.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
• Peter Sellers couldn’t have concocted a more deranged flight of fancy.
  — Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
• The eight equally far-out stories here — each one its own deadpan flight of fancy, sly and strange — explore everything from a house filled with 100 ex-boyfriends to a drug that turns the user ecstatically invisible.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2022
• This flight of fancy isn’t completely detached from reality.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 30 Mar. 2023
• As Beekman shared his vision Thursday during a Zoom call with reporters, everyone listening was transported back eight months to a different time, when this flight of fancy Beekman described was the norm so many took for granted.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2020
• Whether smokescreen, negotiating tactic, genuine concern or flight of fancy, Mr. Musk’s insistence that Twitter is overrun by spam bots has upended a deal that was eccentric from the outset and left both sides in difficult positions.
  — Cara Lombardo, WSJ, 18 May 2022
• As their twin narratives continue, Auburn jostles audience expectations, steering the story away from potentially melodramatic plot points, eschewing sentimentality — even offering a flight of fancy or two.
  — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024