fanciful story

collocation in English

meaningsoffancifulandstory

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fanciful
adjective
uk
/ˈfæn.sɪ.fəl/us
/ˈfæn.sɪ.fəl/
not likely to succeed or happen in the ...
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story
noun[C]
uk
/ˈstɔː.ri/us
/ˈstɔːr.i/
a description, either true or imagined, of a connected series ...
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(Definition offancifulandstoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffanciful story

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The occasionalfancifulstoryhas appeared in the press, although one can sometimes believe what one reads there.
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How ridiculous becomes thisfancifulstoryof the poor little child who dies a fortnight after the doctor has been acquitted of the charges that have been made against him.
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However, a morefancifulstoryof how the town received its name is popular.
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Fanciful stories of talking spiders and dice that sit up to look at themselves are rhetorical embellishments, not cogent reasons.
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These fanciful stories are wonderfully entertaining, post hoc explanations that have as their justification the joy, not the scientific enlightenment, they bring to the reader.
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All sorts of fanciful stories have been put around about hybridisation.
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Such fanciful stories are now circulated.
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In spite of the many fanciful stories about exorbitant charges and so on, on the whole people get their vegetables and other produce from the market reasonably cheaply.
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Fanciful stories abound of how pilots knew of one another and hoped to duel with each other in the skies.
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When an editor or member of the writing staff left, the magazine would often concoct fanciful stories surrounding their leaving.
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However, the fanciful stories persist and grow as time passes.
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The book's poems address many common childhood concerns and also presents purely fanciful stories.
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While in popular usage, the term "myth" often refers to false or fanciful stories, cultures regard their creation myths as true to varying degrees.
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