Example sentences for: fancy

How can you use “fancy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Memorizing words is not the point of this book which, in addition to two titles, has a subtitle: “A literary distillation of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Webster's International , and Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words .” The book is a list of words, with remarkably succinct definitions, that have captured the author's fancy for one reason or another.

  • Using the same technology we use in Slate's reader-discussion forum, "The Fray," Chatterbox will be updated whenever the fancy strikes, independent of Slate's official daily posting schedule.

  • To cover at least a modest range of fancy beer types--extra special bitter, India pale ale, Hefeweizen, and so on.

  • That would be like saying 60 years ago: "Ooh, Mr. Fancy Pants and his home phone!

  • The old lady and the three equally diminutive adults and two small children in her North Country group regularly visited the boating-lake during their holiday, and the staff took a fancy to the expression Mr Rivers had used and would say things like Your grockle family's here and so on.


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