Sentence examples for great fancy from inspiring English sources

"He can do the great fancy plays, but he's a power forward and he can hit.

The house is now white, but in 1878 The Eagle reported that the government had a "great fancy" for painting the Navy Yard buildings a "creamy yellow".

I'm not sure if they meant it would make a great fancy dress outfit, but it does scare the bejeezus out of radical Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who tweeted: "No Halloween costume is scarier than Burqa".

It may be no more than the sum of its parts, and the slightly soap-operatic finale doesn't entirely distract your attention from untied plot threads, but there is some great fancy footwork in the narrative and fierce satirical strokes that recall Tom Wolfe.

The novelist Maria Edgeworth remarked, "I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die".

"We've gotten to the point where people expect that the world owes you a great big house and a great big fancy new car," said Mr. Terpstra, the engineer.

In fact, the court-stacking has been so successful that last Friday the Society threw a great big fancy party celebrating their 25 years of triumph.

"This being brought into contact, daily, with facts, will upset a great many fancies, and give a pre-eminence of the factual over the imaginative".

Don't take an interest in big houses, fancy holidays, or great cars... because eventually you'll only get upset.

Great lyrics, even fancy ones, do not necessarily aspire to poetry.

Human nature makes us want to like people whom we regard as great and to fancy that they would like us.