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Six example sentences with fanciful, each labelled with its topic.
Her murals are deliberately fanciful, filling the ceiling with balloon whales and staircases that lead nowhere at all.
Art
The pavilion is a fanciful thing of copper turrets and glass bubbles that no committee would approve today.
Architecture
Nineteenth century travellers wrote fanciful accounts of cities they never entered, complete with towers of ice and talking birds.
Literature
The film's fanciful sets include a bakery run by clockwork foxes and a train that travels on rainbows.
Movies
The pastry chef's fanciful desserts arrive shaped like planets, complete with sugar rings and a moon of meringue.
Cooking
The pitch grew fanciful by slide nine, promising delivery drones for every village in Europe within eighteen months.
Startups
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