fancied

Example Sentences

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“Up in one of the windows, there was a girl I fancied called Jasmine,” he explained.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

"I fancied building a UFO, but doing it from scratch would have been too expensive."

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

But while Bournemouth used to be a team who I always fancied to score, and could be quite open, recently they have become a lot tighter at the back.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

Instead, the Admiralty fed information about their system to a naval officer named Frederick Dreyer, who was a capable gunnery officer but not the great inventor he fancied himself to be.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

He was a war veteran with a missing arm, and this fascinated a certain type of woman in her early twenties who fancied herself mature beyond her years and was serious about herself.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson