fancied

Example Sentences

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On his previous form behind Fact To File and fellow National rival Spillane's Tower, he can be fancied.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Having previously worked in print and marketing for decades, Paton said she had got to a point where she fancied a change.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 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

Odermatt, the reigning Olympic giant slalom champion who is fancied to add to his medal haul in Bormio, said training had differed from Wednesday's first run.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

“Oh nonsense,” Greta Betchel, a petite woman who fancied herself both a nineteenth-century graveyard poet and the world’s last jardiniere supreme a la Louis XIV, replied.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols