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How to use fancied in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective

Fancied means existing only in the fancy (“imagination”) or by social convention; imaginary, imagined; supposed; perceived rather than real. Example: “The plant was named for its fancied resemblance to a Roman spear.”

Examples of fancied by meaning

adjectiveExisting only in the fancy (“imagination”) or by social convention; imaginary, imagined; supposed; perceived rather...

  • The plant was named for its fancied resemblance to a Roman spear.

adjectiveHaving a fancy (“inclination, liking, or love”) for; desired, favourite.

  • The visitors were worthy winners, taking the game to the highly fancied hosts from the first minute.2021 February 6, Graham Bean, “Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, in The Scotsman, Edinburgh: The...

adjectivePredicted to win or succeed.

  • the fancied team in the tournament
  • Wasteful, but better than their heavily fancied opponents.2026 June 14, Tom English, “Why Haiti v Scotland was antidote to the ills of world football”, in BBC Sport

More sentences with fancied

  • The mitral valve was named for a fancied resemblance to a bishop's mitre.From the entry mitral
  • I fancied a flutter, and I won eighty pounds on it.From the entry flutter
  • One day Frankie rollered up our drive and asked me if I fancied a skate.2020, Nick Hughes, Bahama Boyz, page 138. From the entry roller
  • Some hated him for his attitude while others, including Shirmin, fancied his manoeuvrability and stark mannerism.2017, Kamlesh Choudhary, Vertical and the Organic. From the entry manoeuvrability
  • Billy fancied himself as a bit of a Han Solo, but he shook his head.2009, Ed Macy, Hellfire, London: Harper Press, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry a
  • 'Twas tea time by then, and I fancied a drop Of champagne or cognac—or any slipslop.2005, Charles Harrington Elster, There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent Guide to Life, →ISBN. From the entry slipslop
  • Strange fastened it to his cane, for he fancied his little stick even on shipboard.1938 December, James Norman Hall, “The Cheerful Tortoise (Doctor Dogbody's Leg)”, in The Windsor Magazine, volume 89, number 528, page 9. From the entry bang straw
  • "I fancied that we — I and who? — hammocked among the summer breezes."1901, Yone Noguchi, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (wiki article). From the entry hammock
  • She rather fancied a tree-stump amongst some tall fox-gloves.1908, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, New York: Frederick Warne & Co. From the entry foxglove
  • Yes, he fancied her but no more or less than he fancied a hundred women that he saw walking down the street in one day.2010, Adele Parks, Men I've loved before, →ISBN. From the entry repeat offend
  • Because they had named her Cecilia, her parents fancied that the matter of her life and character had been fairly well settled.1928, Lynn Montross, “Silent Minstrel”, in American Magazine, volume 106, page 14. From the entry Cecilia
  • We have sometimes fancied that the modern noises are the utterances of that rejuvenescence, another name for recrudescence, which has overtaken the race.1906, “Editor's Easy Chair”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 113, number 678. From the entry puerilization
  • Despite the fact that he is universally fancied by almost every woman on the internet, Timothee Chalamet's negative canthal tilt would land him firmly in "prey" territory.2023 June 7, Ruchira Sharma, “Women Want One Thing in Men, and It's 'Hunter Eyes'”, in VICE, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2023. From the entry canthal
  • Her husband was dead, and Werper fancied that he could replace in the girl’s heart the position which had been vacated by the act of the grim reaper.1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. From the entry grim reaper

Meaning of fancied

  1. adjective Existing only in the fancy (“imagination”) or by social convention; imaginary, imagined; supposed; perceived rather than real.
  2. adjective Organized, or (especially of attire) designed, to suit one's fancy or whim.
  3. adjective Having a fancy (“inclination, liking, or love”) for; desired, favourite.

Full definition of fancied

Questions about fancied in a sentence

How do you use fancied in a sentence?
Fancied is used as an adjective. For example: “The plant was named for its fancied resemblance to a Roman spear.”
What is a short sentence with fancied?
“the fancied team in the tournament”
What does fancied mean?
Fancied means existing only in the fancy (“imagination”) or by social convention; imaginary, imagined; supposed; perceived rather than real.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fancied (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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