Sentence examples for fanciful numbers from inspiring English sources

Herodotus' fanciful numbers are used to populate the Persian army, and Plutarch's discussion of Greek women, specifically Spartan women, is inserted wrongly in the dialogue between the "misogynist" Persian ambassador and the Spartan king.

Are such numbers fanciful?

It did indeed seem fanciful for a number of reasons.

Now, those numbers are fanciful estimates rooted in the weird science of superhero world, but they're probably in the right order of magnitude.

The 10-year anniversary will be marked in a number of fanciful ways, the most appropriate perhaps being various commemorative bottlings.

This being a Peter Jackson 3D fantasy, Mr. Freeman could have conceived of his character as any number of fanciful creatures – some amalgam of shy elf or uncomfortable dwarf.

In discussing the "Third India", Jordanus records a number of fanciful stories about the land and its king, whom he says Europeans call Prester John.

For a long time, literary references to jade burial suits were regarded by scholars as fanciful myths, but a number of examples were excavated in the 20th century, and it is now believed that they were relatively common among early rulers.

That prediction may be a bit fanciful.

This time, his ruse was so fanciful that it inspired a number of engravings.

That number is probably fanciful, or at the very least includes a lot of cameras in the back of closets.