Sentence examples for given a fancy from inspiring English sources

During the nineteen-eighties, this destructive process was given a fancy name—"hysteresis"—and applied to Europe.

During the nineteen-eighties, this destructive process was given a fancy name — "hysteresis" — and applied to Europe.

Given a fancy dress theme of the future, there's barely a decimated ice-cap, malevolent super-intelligence or Trump apocalypse in sight.

Worst of times In 1980, she became writer in residence at the University of Queensland in Australia, and was given a fancy, state-of-the-art office to work in.

"He reminds me of a certain type I knew in high school -- the kid who was given a fancy sports car for his sixteenth birthday and believed that he had somehow earned it.

They're calf testicles that have been given a fancy name to distract you from the fact that they're testicles.

This was his system, to which he gave a fancy name.

Chinart, one Chinese antiques gallery in Manhattan that is not giving a fancy cocktail party during the current round of auctions and shows known as Asian Art Week, doesn't need to.

Giving a fancy name to something we do already and calling it a new trend is hugely popular in the travel industry... think "wild swimming" (swimming outside), wild camping (camping not on a campsite) and this year's fave, "the inter-generational holiday" – going on holiday with your kids, your mum, and your nan.

The script hews to the film's central story of the tensions between Tom the cabbie (Mr. Wopat) and Aggie (Ms. Prince) over whether to give a fancy wedding for their daughter, Janey Leslie Kritzerr, in the Debbie Reynolds part) and her fiancé, Ralph Matt Cavenaughh).

"Can they give a fancy speech?