Sentence examples for took my fancy from inspiring English sources

I began investigating prison conditions, disability rights, social movements, environmental scandals and anything else that took my fancy.

I WAS stalking the aisles of my nearby Swedish mega-retailer recently when I saw a countertop greenhouse that took my fancy.

After a couple of 'fruit' punches (containing Cockspur rum, but I didn't know that at the time), I got very trigger happy and bunged my measly dollars on whichever horse took my fancy in the parade ring.

It felt like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders and I immediately began stopping at all the lookout spots that took my fancy - and there were plenty of those.

"I do not know the child," Potter wrote, "She is the school friend of a little cousin, who asked for it as a favour, and the name took my fancy".

Then I sit down and write about my life or whatever issue takes my fancy.

The generous spirit of the Guardian prize also takes my fancy.

This is not a future that takes my fancy, so I choose to rent.

Copacabana had taken my fancy when we stopped there for lunch on the way from Puno to La Paz.

"I'm not interested in decoration, but in something that takes my fancy," said Oberto Gili, a photographer, whose book "Luxury of Space" (Assouline, $70) appears in October.

By Arthur Bartlett The New Yorker, April 9, 1938 P. 23 Herewithem Short Pants is the pointer that takes my fancy Winning by View Article By Anthony Lane By Rebecca Mead By John Cassidy By Jia Tolentino.