Example Sentences

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The weirdness this time came from Cindy Figueroa’s fancifully colorful costumes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2024

"The stone was looking at me and I was looking at it. It wanted me to set it free from the wall!" says Dr Sadek fancifully.

From BBC • May 26, 2023

Taffeta is fancifully engaged in historical revisionism, but it’s her own history that is as much at stake as Lincoln’s.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022

It was sunlight reflected at a particular angle off the sides of a cave, but the discovery soon made its way to Israeli television and was fancifully named “the burning bush.”

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2021

But life being what it is, how can ordinary people truly be expected to have 'strong opinions' on all manner of things - as Mr Harry Smith rather fancifully claims the villagers here do?

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro