Fancy in sentence

657 examples of Fancy in a sentence

And I remember thinking, "Come on, lady, stop with the fancy French words and just give me some white wine."

Working-class kids are much more likely to face what's called adverse childhood experiences, which is just a fancy word for childhood trauma: getting hit or yelled at, put down by a parent repeatedly, watching someone hit or beat your parent, watching someone do drugs or abuse alcohol.

And fancy food was entirely French.

They went out, celebrated, fancy dinner, opened a bottle of champagne.

And the good news is, it's a solution that isn't particularly expensive, and doesn't require any fancy drug treatments or new technologies.

And these tools, they don't require that you raise additional funds or that you develop any more fancy technologies.

Actually, I was going to say that maybe women are born with a cooking gene, until I remember that the majority of the famous cooks in the world, whom we give the fancy title of "chefs," are men.

The family of giants you work for is throwing a fancy dinner party, and they all want to look their best.

Maybe instead of getting excited about the most exciting new cool fancy education apps, we could fix the way kids' minds are getting manipulated into sending empty messages back and forth.

Communitas is a fancy social science way of saying "spirit of community."

Now, these sound like big, fancy, academic terms, and they are.

If you go look up the peer-reviewed paper for this, you will see all kinds of fancy terminology: it's an illusory superiority complex, thinking we know things.

Unconfined agility, fast and fancy, sparks of ingenuity rise: fire.

And what that does from a security or a military part is it does three things: it changes the very operating environment that we're working in, it threatens our bases, and then it has geostrategic risks, which sounds kind of fancy and I'll explain what I mean by that in a second.

And then on November 25, my husband Aaron died after three years with stage-four glioblastoma, which is just a fancy word for brain cancer.

It's not the fancy filmmaking where you say, oh, you want to put all the razzmatazz of Hollywood, and where you have big budgets.

And she shows that you don't have to be a fancy astrophysicist to participate.

Now, the old timers didn't take a fancy guitar string and make anything like this.

I started toying with a protocol, which is fancy science talk for a recipe.

In later episodes, I build on this foundation and introduce big fancy words like "nonbinary" and "transgender."

And so, here are four different rhinoviruses, and you can see, even with your eye, without any fancy computer pattern-matching recognition software algorithms, that you can distinguish each one of these barcodes from each other.

And it doesn't require fancy new technology.

And I had these legs made a little over a year ago at Dorset Orthopedic in England and when I brought them home to Manhattan, my first night out on the town, I went to a very fancy party.

So the neoliberal idea that inclusion is this fancy luxury to be afforded if and when we have growth is both wrong and backwards.

You know, me and my husband, we were out grocery shopping, as we do every other day, but this time, we found this fancy, you know, I'm talking fair-trade, I'm talking organic, I'm talking Kenyan, single-origin coffee that we splurged and got.

You know, my husband, he deemed this coffee blend superior to our regular and much cheaper coffee, which made me imagine a life based solely on fancy coffee and I saw our household budget explode.

Of his bias in favor of the fancy coffee that made him experience taste differences that just weren't there.

My starting to fancy she'd ended up in this fire-trap in the Village, that my neighbor was her.

A casual impulse, a fancy, never thought of until now, hardly thought of even now ... No, more than impulse or fancy, the girl knows what she's doing, the girl means something, the girl means to mean, because it occurs to her in that instant, that beautiful or not, bright yes or no, she's not who she is, she's not the person she is, and the reason, she suddenly knows, is that there's been so much premeditation where she is, so much plotting and planning, there's hardly a person where she is, or if there is, it's not her, or not wholly her, it's a self inhabited, lived in by her, and seemingly even as she thinks it she knows what's been missing: grace, not premeditation but grace, a kind of being in the world spontaneously, with grace.

So now we have a fancy name for this: we call it "quorum sensing."

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