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Example sentences for "fantasies"

Lexicographically close words:
fant; fantail; fantails; fantasias; fantasie; fantastic; fantastical; fantasticall; fantastically; fantastick
  1. Among all his fantasies none remains in the imagination more despotically than this last fanciful game of dying.

  2. This indefinable seriousness has its own fantasies of fanaticism or formalism; but if these are vices they are not vulgarities.

  3. He would think it a grim little grotesque of rustic diablerie, a quaint tale of goblins, neither less nor more improbable than hundreds of psychic fantasies or farces for which there is really a good deal of evidence.

  4. During these days his untried fantasies changed to reality, with the gradual knowledge of this lithe, lovely girl beside him, who had, by some freak of good fortune, given herself to him .

  5. He would come home after a day with her, and lie, tumbling sleeplessly on his bed, living over the delicious last moments spent with her, and elaborating intenser fantasies of love-making.

  6. His fancy played fitfully with fantasies that started with his lifting that warm dear hand to his kiss .

  7. On the walks with his father, Paul's mind was filled with thoughts of the planned development of the land for residential purposes, while Pelham was busied with fantasies of fairies and knightly escapades.

  8. During that time he had not given any concerts, nor had he produced any new piano pieces, in his well-known style, paraphrases and fantasies on favorite airs.

  9. He wanted to open it, to let in the fresh night air, to scare away the fantasies which were slowly surrounding his senses.

  10. Many, many are the fantasies we have indulged in, have we not?

  11. But when the smoke cloud above the remains of our sorry banquet grows dense from the pipes of three excellent smokers, we lapse into silence, and see in the moving mists sweet fantasies far away.

  12. At the break of day he hastened to the duke's palace, asked for his dismissal, packed up his baggage, and hastily started with his head filled with glowing fantasies and his burden on his back, for his delightful retreat in the forest.

  13. There was no one here to censor his fantasies and out of the gray eyes went their veiling sullenness and out of the lips their taut grimness.

  14. Such fantasies did not fit into his pattern of life.

  15. That these fantasies bore any personal relation to himself he did not admit or even suspect.

  16. Germany, in general, pronounced the work a conglomeration of crazy fantasies and wild absurdities--and Nietzsche smiled with satisfaction.

  17. Even the unseen genius of the Austral wild—no malign, amorphous terror, but a benignant sylvan deity—might peer through the forest leaves and smile wonderingly at the fantasies of the 'coming race.

  18. A half-sigh of regret tells of fair visions fled, even though you emerge on the lower, wider lawns gay with ribbon-borders and yet brighter flower-fantasies in newer unfolding beauty.

  19. The light that never was on sea or land' fades rapidly, and with the sigh that greets the evanishing of the undersoul's fair fantasies I seek my couch.

  20. Of such foolish quips and fantasies I devised every day an abundance, for 'twas my trade, and none ever found my workshop empty.

  21. Nor is a man a fool because he hath foolish fantasies, for in youth we do all have the like: and he that lets those fantasies run loose is held to be a fool because others keep the fool concealed, and others do but shew the half of him.

  22. Though the affair was but a whim of youth, more odious than poetical, it caused some talk, and raised around the extravagant host the haze of a mystery, suggesting fantasies of irreligion and horror.

  23. What with these fantasies and sectaries and follies--well-a-day!

  24. With the truth of Holy Scripture, or with the fantasies of human nature?

  25. You have outdone yourself by exposing me to the absurd fantasies of this ridiculous woman.

  26. And what fantasies are you getting into your head that your husband spends his money, and that it is he who is giving this entertainment to Madame?

  27. Don't you see that all this is done only to accommodate ourselves to the fantasies of your husband, that we are fooling him under this disguise and that it is Cleonte himself who is the son of the Grand Turk?

  28. Thus did Hearn, like these ancient artificers, weave ancient theories of pre-existence and Karma into spiritual fantasies and imaginations.

  29. Some of the fantasies at the end are full of his peculiar ghostly ideas.

  30. Vision unwelcome, of familiar things, Why force, I cried, your fantasies on my mind?

  31. A germ that lies in wait in the lonely places and breeds fantasies when it gets into your blood.

  32. Men of a certain temperament are apt to fall a prey to fantasies in the newer lands; any common sense they once possessed seems to desert them.

  33. He lived and moved and had his being in music; he was as fertile a composer as he was an author, and many of his writings are fantasies on the subject of music or of the great composers.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fantasies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.