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Example sentences for: fancied

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That is a fancied nautical origin at best.
Experts in striking martial arts such as karate and tae kwon do, who fancied themselves the world's greatest fighters, found themselves pretzeled by jujitsu masters, who pulled them to the ground and slowly choked or leg-locked them.
Because of a recent criticism I was recently moved to express concerning the spelling of flack for press agent, I looked it up and found it under flack , where the fancied etymology is quoted from Better English ([June 28] 1939):
He might even have fancied himself a Robin Hood, although Boorman (who also wrote the screenplay) is careful to show that if Cahill stole from the rich he gave to no one but himself and his family, and that his thieving put a lot of poor people out of work.
But they also fancied themselves as Nazis.