fancied
Example Sentences
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Add all that together, and it's easy to see why Ferrari are fancied for a potential win this year.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
Brian Barry-Murphy's Cardiff were expected to be close this season, but no-one I knew fancied Lincoln.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
“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
“The person Gary and I looked up to most was Lawrence Ferlinghetti. When we opened this bookshop, we fancied ourselves like Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin when they started City Lights.”
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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