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How to use fantasize in a sentence

19 example sentences · verb

Fantasize means to indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy. Example: “I fantasized about my ideal date.”

Examples of fantasize by meaning

verbTo indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.

  • I fantasized about my ideal date.

verbTo portray in the mind, using fantasy.

  • I'd rather fantasize us together in that little cafe.1984 August 11, Janice Irvine, “Secrets of Fear, Shame, and Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 9
  • Actress Dana Delany fantasizes about making love with two men.1995 March 22, “Seinfeld with Madonna? 'Cosmo' reveals sex fantasies”, in The Arizona Republic

More sentences with fantasize

  • They long to give and receive love, and they frequently find themselves always fantasizing about their "happily-ever-after."2020 November 6, Kyle Thomas, “Your Cosmic Love Triangle, by Zodiac Sign”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corporation, →ISSN…. From the entry happily ever after
  • I fantasized a lot about being rich, beautiful, and of course, married.2013, Debbie A. Harris, chapter 4, in Love Doesn't Come with a Guarantee, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry TVaholic
  • You fantasized about having unhurried afternoons before the baby arrived to leisurely shop your favorite boutiques.1988, Sylvia Harney, Married beyond recognition: a humorous look at marriage, page 90. From the entry shop
  • Everything Chinese, it follows, is fantasized as somehow better—longer in existence, more intelligent, more scientific, more valuable, and ultimately beyond comparison.2013, Rey Chow, “On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem”, in Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, Brian Bernards, editors, Sinophone Studies: A…. From the entry sinocentrism
  • She'd spent her entire life fantasizing about him coming back into their lives somehow to give them bankfuls of cash.2006, Theresa Alan, Spur Of The Moment, Strapless, →ISBN. From the entry bankful
  • In other words, I don't fantasize about having a ponyboy brought over to me and being bred with him.1999, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex. From the entry ponyboy
  • It makes me feel better that I’m not the only one who fantasizes about being struck down by a meteor on my way to work.2023 December 2, Tim Graham, “American Psychological Association Announces “Feeling Like Dying But Not Really Suicidal” New Baseline For…. From the entry actively
  • Partly because I loved milder forms of knifeplay but had never taken it as far as I'd fantasized, but mostly because of her.2014, D. L. King, She Who Must Be Obeyed, Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry knifeplay
  • All I did in class was daydream about seein' her wit' out clothes on, then go home and fantasize about gettin' it in wit' her.2013 July 1, Amir Abrams, “5 Antonio”, in The Girl of His Dreams, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry gettin' it in
  • The Samurai Sipper has often fantasized similarly, only I’d pass on Thomas Jefferson and have Edie Falco over for a post-Carmela henfest instead.2007 August 26, S.S. Fair, “Let the Dames Begin”, in New York Times. From the entry henfest
  • Hey, everyone fantasizes about what kind of swinging stud or studette they could be if they were only free from the shackles of domesticity.2003 February 23, Bob Goldman, “Welcome To Splitsville”, in Florida Today. From the entry swinging
  • Richard Spencer and others fantasize about a white ethno-state — this is the Northwest Territorial Imperative, or Northwest Imperative, that would stretch from Montana to Oregon and Washington State.2019 August 6, Lauretta Charlton, “What Is the Great Replacement?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2020. From the entry ethnostate
  • To openly fantasize about the "fairy tale" (Calloway's word) of studying at a Hogwartsian institution where everyone's accent is pleasant is, as they would say in Cambridge, pretty cringe.2015 September 2, Lauren Oyler, “Cambridge's Most Controversial Instagram Celebrity Gets the Last Laugh”, in Vice, archived from the…. From the entry Hogwartsian
  • We can already tell which idyllic couples obsessive fans will fantasize about like Chair (Chuck and Blaire of "Gossip Girl") and Jim and Pam of "The Office."2012 October 18, Haley Boston, “TV Review: 'Nashville'”, in The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University, page 4. From the entry chair
  • I didn’t fantasize about its features, as I did with the feedable Baby Alive doll when I was 6 or with my first Macintosh, when I was 19.2009 April 5, Virginia Heffernan, “I Hate My iPhone”, in New York Times. From the entry feedable
  • Dreamchildren are not only imaginary child characters who dream; they also tend to be fantasized about by the authors of the stories in which they appear.2004: Amy Christine Billone, The Boy Who Lived: From Carroll’s Alice and Barrie’s Peter Pan to Rowling’s Harry Potter, pUnknown (pp178–202). From the entry dreamchildren

Meaning of fantasize

  1. verb To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.
  2. verb To portray in the mind, using fantasy.

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Questions about fantasize in a sentence

How do you use fantasize in a sentence?
Fantasize is used as a verb. For example: “I fantasized about my ideal date.”
What is a short sentence with fantasize?
“I fantasized about my ideal date.”
What does fantasize mean?
Fantasize means to indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.

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