"Oh, come now, don't humans tell fanciful stories before going to sleep?"

By coincidence - and again I don't have a good word but it's not 'chance' - all four of us are addicted to fanciful stories.

The book's poems address many common childhood concerns and also presents purely fanciful stories.

Another colleague even wrote a slightly fanciful story about it.

It's a fanciful story that could work, and does, but only fitfully, and mostly in the second act.

"Quite a fanciful story, for a people who thrive on plainness," he observed candidly.

Here was the truth which had spawned those fanciful stories.

Jacob," said my wife, "suppose we were people who don't like fanciful stories.

However, a more fanciful story of how the town received its name is much more popular.

When an editor or member of the writing staff left, the magazine would often concoct fanciful stories surrounding their leaving.