How to Use fantasize in a Sentence

fantasize

verb
Definition of fantasizenext
Synonyms for fantasizenext
  • She fantasized that she had won a million dollars.
  • The six hours of my flight back to New York were spent fantasizing about life post-Oura ring.
    — Erika Veurink, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2023
  • There was a part of me that fantasized about flipping over.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • But that didn’t stop the ARMY from fantasizing about what looks the guys would have pulled out — even in advance.
    — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 7 May 2019
  • What child doesn't fantasize about flying through the air?
    — Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Maybe not to fans who fantasize about Tanking for Trevor (Lawrence).
    — Star Tribune, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Not that fantasizing about costumes is a bad thing for kids to do!
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 19 Sep. 2023
  • My friend Shon says that people tend to fantasize less when most of the major needs in their life are being met.
    — Annie Lord, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Gail Collins: Feel free to fantasize about Trump behind bars.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 May 2021
  • These are the moments kids fantasize about in their driveways.
    — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Halloween is a time of wonder, of curses, ghouls and dark magic, a time to let rip and fantasize.
    — Holly Thomas, CNN, 29 Oct. 2022
  • For just about as long as smartphones have had screens that crack, folks have been fantasizing about how to save them from that fate.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2018
  • In it, an artist named Ian French sees a girl in the building opposite his and begins to fantasize about her.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The House of Commons is full of politicians who fantasize about somehow thwarting the whole process.
    — Fraser Nelson, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Most of us fantasize about quitting our jobs and moving to France to live la vie parisienne at some point.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Yet, he will be left to fantasize about running the football during the 2021 season.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Maddy stormed off, and Nate went into the bathroom to fantasize.
    — Mónica Marie Zorrilla, Variety, 8 Jan. 2022
  • While the world was waiting to snap out of a pandemic nightmare, Colin Morikawa hit the kind of shot players around the world fantasize about.
    — John Marshall, ajc, 25 Dec. 2020
  • An ad campaign for the games suggested men were abandoning strip clubs to play the game and fantasize about Lara.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 19 Mar. 2018
  • What drove Keith to kill himself and to fantasize about killing others?
    — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Users, many of them teenagers or young adults, fantasized about violence.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But Diani isn’t focusing on the start; she’s spent much of this year fantasizing about how this World Cup might end.
    — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
  • My pre-teenage friends would fantasize about the day our Baptist school would allow such a skin-baring take on a uniform.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • This lust-free zone is aimed at those who fantasize about high-end hotel robes, fresh flowers, and billion-thread count sheets.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 4 Jan. 2023
  • In that spirit, the authors of Renewing the Dream don’t just complain or fantasize.
    — Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
  • For those who fantasize about a life of seaside solitude, the lighthouse has two simple guest rooms available to rent.
    — Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The one for her single Dancing shows Minogue cooped up in a run-down motel room, fantasizing about boot-scootin’ with a cowboy at a bar.
    — Bob Doerschuk, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2018
  • For a solid chunk of time, a large part of the Resistance Media fantasized about a day when he would be imprisoned.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The tsars of imperial Russia also fantasized about this land beyond the Snowy Range — the money that could be made from its gold and musk and furs.
    — Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Sigmund Freud Some homeowners fantasize about putting in a chef’s kitchen or a spa bathroom.
    — Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2019

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