fantasize

If you fantasize about retiring abroad, stories of blissful expats will only stoke your desire.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

That permission to fantasize might be the biggest gift of all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

I let myself fantasize about doing the same with my baby, about hearing the cries as soon as he or she emerged instead of eerie silence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

I would often fantasize about lying on my deathbed with the love of my life, hand in hand, like Noah and Allie.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2025

It is common enough at such times to fantasize arriving in a remote and high place.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Walter Mitty is a term sometimes used to describe a person who fantasizes about a life more interesting and exciting than their own.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

Instead, he fantasizes about resettling in the Ukraine and forging a life that might command the respect he craves from his parents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025

The book takes place in the fictional hamlet of Swampshire, where Beatrice Steele lives with her family, fantasizes about solving crimes, and worries about what happens to women who step outside their societal spheres.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

On the last day of work for Bringley, who a decade later is still a young man, Joseph fantasizes about his own future in their shared language of art.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023

Isaac fantasizes about opening a brewery-cum-performance-space, traveling through South America, or operating a sunset massage cruise in the Caribbean.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Duchamp’s seeming disinterest often revealed itself to be something far more venomous, as when he fantasized about a nihilistic readymade: “Use a Rembrandt as an ironing board.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

I immediately fantasized about changing my no-dog policy to “second dogs are OK—at $500 a month.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

Mayer says he’s fantasized about a sitcom or a talk show taking up residence on the soundstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2026

I fantasized about eating an array of bubble plate-friendly foods: crudités, scoops of vanilla ice cream drizzled in olive oil and elaborate yogurt bowls topped with fancy granola, cut-up fruit and cacao nibs.

From Salon ● May 25, 2025

Over and over, I fantasized about what I would like to do.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

While starving and battling lice, the young women distracted themselves by fantasizing about food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

I haven’t had that sandwich in more than a decade, but just writing about it now, I’m absolutely fantasizing.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025

But this wasn’t merely a spectacle of a man engaged in otherworldly fantasizing.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025

It’s saying he’s misinformed and fantasizing, not outright lying, as he meddles deeply in California water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025

I don’t bother fantasizing, because where did that get me last time?

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée