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How to use fantasy in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Fantasy means that which comes from one's imagination or the act of imagining things. Example: “These plans seem unworkable; moreover, a budget for their implementation remains a fantasy.”

Examples of fantasy by meaning

verbTo fantasize about (something).

  • Instead of phantasying marriage, she actually feels that she is already married to the man of her phantasy.1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 127
  • Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.2013, Mark J. Blechner, Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV

More sentences with fantasy

  • These plans seem unworkable; moreover, a budget for their implementation remains a fantasy.From the entry unworkable
  • Fantasy camp is where would-be Gretzkies can skate with members of professional teams.From the entry Gretzky
  • If she thinks she can become President, she's living in a fantasy world!From the entry fantasy world
  • Many of these fantasy novels feature a main character portrayed as a chosen one who will save everyone else.From the entry chosen one
  • Django Wexler is an American fantasy author.From the entry Django
  • Many Eastern countries experience auto-Orientalism, by which their people participate in existing Western exaggerations and fantasies concerning their culture and customs.From the entry auto-Orientalism
  • To forego life for a fantasy: What could be more fatalistic than that?2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2025. From the entry fatalistic
  • Roleplaying can be a fun way to tap into a cheating fantasy without compromising your relationship.2024 August 7, Mary Madigan, quoting Nova Hawthorne, “Millennial escort reveals the latest ‘taboo’ sex trend taking generation by storm…. From the entry roleplaying
  • There was a time my friends and I did a fantasy race quiz.2024 April 22, @fattyfattyjojo, Twitter. From the entry humie
  • Peterson, an avid language creator who constructed High Valyrian and Dothraki for HBO's hit fantasy series.2023 January 5, Belen Edwards, “High Valyrian from 'Game of Thrones' has four genders. Here's why.”, in Mashable, archived from the…. From the entry Dothraki
  • The tabloids branded him forevermore as the “love rat,” and Pasternak was excoriated for peddling mawkish fantasy.2022 April 5, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair. From the entry excoriate
  • Weirdcore design is in, starring fantasy art and adorable mushroom decor.2022 December 8, Lizzie Deal, “Pinterest Predicts the Top Home Trends for 2023”, in Real Simple, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2022. From the entry weirdcore
  • Estrogen isnt a magic potion that legitimizes your perverted fantasy version of reality.2021 October 9, arthoefootjob, Twitter. From the entry YWNBARW
  • That’s a tip-off that the film is a fantasy musical, ala Baz Luhrmann (“Moulin Rouge”).2019 June 13, L. Kent Wolgamott, “'Rocketman' and its knowing look at Elton John is a better rock biopic than 'Bohemian Rhapsody'”, in…. From the entry Broadwayish
  • A sudden fantasy emerges of Adam adjuncting at Hannah's college, a sweet Mr.2017 April 15, Emily Jordan, “Let me be misunderstood: The final episode of HBO's "Girls" and how we really feel about Hannah Horvath”, in…. From the entry adjunct
  • Tao was a voracious consumer of fantasy books like Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.2015 July 24, Gareth Cook, “The Singular Mind of Terry Tao”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry terry
  • High fantasy of the George RR Martin kind hinges on world-building.2015 May 20, Natasha Pulley, “Fantasy cannot build its imaginary worlds in short fiction”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry worldbuilding
  • The fantasy of robotic masses expresses a complex desire, to embody and depersonate at the same time.2014, Despina Kakoudaki, Anatomy of a Robot. From the entry depersonate
  • However, Klein's phantasy is not exactly Lacan's imaginary fantasy; it is, I think, more than that.2013, Lene Austed, quoting Jonathan Davidoff, “Introducing Psychoanalysis and Politics”, in Nationalism and the Body Politic, →ISBN, page…. From the entry phantasy
  • The coarsest sensualists are in thrall more to their brainish fantasies than to their carnal appetites.2013, Michael Curran, Sentences. From the entry brainish
  • Whatever fantasy you can’t act out in real life can be fulfilled in fan fiction.2013, Katherine Arcement, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 5. From the entry May–December
  • It wasn't as if he hadn't had fantasies about a little something-something with a client or two.2013, Liz Talley, His Uptown Girl, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry something-something
  • We met online, exchanged pics, exchanged fantasies (mostly mine), exchanged racy pics (mostly hers), chatted, vidchatted.2013 April 9, Ska Hammer, “How I Came to Have My Own Panties”, in Crasstalk, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018. From the entry vidchat
  • Much like Mirror Mirror, Huntsman appears to borrow liberally from other fantasy films.2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in AV Club. From the entry nod
  • She writes romantic fantasy and science fiction, and makes liberal use of the substance known as handwavium.2012, Imogen Howson, Blood of the Volcano, Cincinnati, Oh.: Samhain Publishing, →ISBN, page 167. From the entry handwavium
  • Closeness to Hollywood (with its fantasy world of entertainment bizazz) influenced strip architecture.2011, John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle, “Observing Roadside America”, in Remembering Roadside America: Preserving the Recent Past as…. From the entry pizzazz
  • The fantasy here isn't about making it with a hot fembot.2010 September 28, Annalee Newitz, “Why do We Keep Falling in Love with Cyborgs?”, in io9, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2019. From the entry nuke
  • Or is this "lezploitation", playing up to heterosexual fantasies about gay women?2010 March 21, Andrew Eaton, “Andrew Eaton: What's all the fuss about acting gay?”, in The Scotsman. From the entry lezploitation
  • Ray was her fantasy, her mind-candy, as were her plans for his seduction.2010, Alison Kent, Bound to Happen, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry mind candy
  • Real life wasn’t that great, but living in fantasy land was terrific.2009, Romy Miller, “Everything You Know Might Quite Possibly Be Wrong”, in How to Be Wanted: Use the Law of Attraction to Date the Man You…. From the entry fantasy land
  • But soon, fantasy land was bombed by reality and I found myself living in a painful world.2009, Romy Miller, “Everything You Know Might Quite Possibly Be Wrong”, in How to Be Wanted: Use the Law of Attraction to Date the Man You…. From the entry fantasy land
  • “Fantasy Black Channel” is produced by the highly regarded and open-eared D.J.2009 January 12, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times. From the entry seamlessness
  • Otakukin sound like something out of a science fiction or fantasy novel.2009, American Folklore Meeting, Program and Abstracts, page 95. From the entry fictionkin
  • Newsom uses a harp and her froggish little voice to spin elaborate, beguiling fantasies.2008 February 1, “Pop and rock listings”, in The New York Times. From the entry froggish
  • His presence, after all, disturbs our arrogant pretensions and suitheistic fantasies.2008, James Patrick Holding, Shattering the Christ Myth, page 334. From the entry suitheistic
  • McClellan cites, including the neocon fantasies of a newly democratic Middle East.2008 June 1, Frank Rich, “McCain’s McClellan Nightmare”, in New York Times. From the entry drumbeater
  • When she moves from anthropological classification to fantasy, her figures adapt, evolutionlike, to the tasks at hand.2007 April 20, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry evolutionlike
  • You need to write this sick fantasy into a novel, Mr.2007 June 25, Tom Sr., “Another nigger dusts off a pregnant white chick”, in alt.politics (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Aug…. From the entry k00k

Meaning of fantasy

  1. noun That which comes from one's imagination or the act of imagining things.
  2. noun The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
  3. noun A fantastical design.

Full definition of fantasy

Questions about fantasy in a sentence

How do you use fantasy in a sentence?
Fantasy is used as a noun and verb. For example: “These plans seem unworkable; moreover, a budget for their implementation remains a fantasy.”
What is a short sentence with fantasy?
“Django Wexler is an American fantasy author.”
What does fantasy mean?
Fantasy means that which comes from one's imagination or the act of imagining things.

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