passing fancy

Example Sentences

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The pandemic provided time for the story to become something more than a passing fancy.

From New York Times • May 5, 2023

She always thought of it as some type of passing fancy and then one day I would go and get a "real job."

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2021

I can see why you’d assume a 4-year-old’s commitment to vegetarianism would be a passing fancy.

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2020

While Cowan acknowledges that goat yoga will be a passing fancy for most, she loves the idea of it.

From The Guardian • Dec. 3, 2018

Everyone here thinks my interest is just a passing fancy, since they’ve never heard of a teenager with an appreciation of mythology.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank