Sentence examples for fancy imagining from inspiring English sources

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Fadwa diverts herself from her responsibilities with flights of fancy, imagining she is hosting the cooking show that gives the play its title.

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The New York Fed's gym, at its downtown Manhattan headquarters, wasn't fancy; imagine the dilapidated space those high-schoolers used in the movie "Hoosiers".

(I fancy him imagining a personal sufferer for each number in every toll of the dead and wounded).

(I fancy him imagining a personal sufferer for each number in every toll of the dead and wounded). It would not have got onto canvas but for Homer, who, in his twenties, lived it as a magazine illustrator embedded at times with a New York infantry unit.

"Fancy" and "imagine", that is, are often used to characterize a person's fancied perceptions – which may have no muscular or behavioural manifestations.

It is a pleasant fancy to imagine that Dickinson, ever the tortoise in relation to rushing time, knew that, in the end, we would catch up to her.

In the 3rd Marquis of Bute he found not only a kindred spirit, but also a man of immeasurable wealth willing to approve every flight of fancy Burges imagined.

Even the flights of fancy — Craig's imagining himself in quick succession as a hip-hop star and the president of the United States; a cover of the pop song "Under Pressure," with Mr. Galifianakis as David Bowie to Mr. Gilchrist's Freddie Mercury — have a dutiful, reined-in quality.

She wants to be able to live in New York in the way she imagines fancy people do.

Woods did not fancy, or even imagine, what happened to him today.

Stuart Armstrong led a room full of the suicide demographic — middle aged, gentle, forlorn looking women — into what he called his "Fancy Dress Shop" experiment: imagine you're in a dress shop and put on the dress that most attracts you.

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