fancy-free

Example Sentences

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“I’m feeling fresh, fancy, free, excited, happy and grateful,” said the “Tenet” actress, who will officially receive the award during Women in Film’s annual gala at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on Wednesday night.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2019

Maybe when I’m 80, I’ll be footloose and fancy free.

From Washington Times • May 2, 2015

I'm shocked by this ... he's running around footloose and fancy free in Miami.

From Reuters • Dec. 13, 2012

He's not the same guy who was loose and fancy free a few years back, riding the wave of popularity and making appearances on Jay Leno's show and the Country Music Awards.

From Chicago Tribune • Feb. 14, 2011

She spent long, solitary hours on the deck of the vessel that conveyed her, and allowed her fancy free course over that sea with a thousand historic memories—the Mediterranean.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport