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