Sentence examples for fanciful from from inspiring English sources

The idea that he might come to Augusta on the back of 47 competitive holes in six months and somehow contend looked fanciful from the first hole, which he three-putted for a bogey.

Odd Lexicon Caution: These Words Could End a Perfectly Good Scrabble Game A selection of words obscure and fanciful from "A Word a Day: A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English" (John Wiley & Sons): Asyndeton (uh-SIN-di-ton), plural asyndeta, noun.

Challenge: separating the fanciful from the real.

They range from the serious to the fanciful, from the exciting to the petrifying.

The maps sketched by this new generation of cartographers range from the useful to the fanciful and from the simple to the elaborate.

These shorts ranged from fanciful to educational; from mini-documentaries to impressive displays of imagination.

Mr Darling's hopes for gazelle-like growth from 2011 look fanciful for an economy emerging from such a grave financial crisis.

So his grandmother, following the traditions of many Chinese women who cut fanciful shapes from paper to make embroidery patterns for clothes, created dragons and horses from paper for him.

The Neuberger's art often evokes fanciful responses from children.

The book's children, too, have access to the fanciful images from Marie's Agfa.

He later called these basic bits of matter "quarks," adopting the fanciful term from James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake.