fantasize

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

But to my eyes, this fandom appears to be a place where anyone is welcome to fantasize, dream, draw, speculate or just plain geek out.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 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

Instead of continuing the argument about how they would cop, they began to fantasize about what the gold could buy when it became legal tender.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

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

He fantasizes about spending his days taking photos and developing them in his darkroom, where he has total creative control and doesn’t need to worry about budgets and crews and schedules.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

He fantasizes about a James Hong comic book series with his brand of sarcastic humor.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 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

She fantasizes that the next place she goes—because there’s always a next place, another foster home, a new school—she’ll start over with a new, easier-to-maintain look.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

For years the sisters had fantasized, half-seriously, about having their own YouTube channel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

Ever since, Bamberger had fantasized about doing the same.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

On Weibo, accounts linked to Xu have written that “Having more children can solve all problems” and fantasized about Xu’s children marrying Elon Musk’s children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

We don’t have to wonder how much real-world atrocity we’re willing to absorb due to our shifted relationship with these highly personal fantasized versions.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025

But I fantasized about how he’d come back to take Milagro and me away from Mama and her coconuts.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Sure, many other countries go to war with similar motives, fantasizing the conflicts are about freedom or religion or whatever.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

Pete Golding had spent nearly 20 years in college football, fantasizing about the day when he might become a head coach in the hallowed Southeastern Conference.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

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

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025

Now, Robert Eggers, who gained auteur status with his 2015 colonial horror film “The Witch,” delivers a direct remake of Murnau’s film, apparently a project he’s been fantasizing about for decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024

For once Hazel was fantasizing about the real world.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu