How to Use fantasyland in a Sentence

fantasyland

noun
  • Now, even still, like the pros seemed like such a fantasyland, right?
    — Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Only in a fantasyland could the Knicks have made it so far.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • So much of the show is built in a fantasyland with dates that end in fireworks and free diamond rings.
    — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • No, the Frick is now and always has been about pleasure, a fantasyland for old-master purists.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Float off into the ether of your beautiful fantasyland happiness and just leave me alone, please.
    — Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2023
  • This glacial fantasyland has never registered as a foodie hot spot.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2022
  • At present, the people spending our money are stuck in a fantasyland in which there are no costs, only benefits.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • But half of America is on a mission to re-create a fantasyland that never was.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 Feb. 2018
  • With so many pieces that can make everything from pirate ships to castles, your child can build a complete fantasyland by the end of their playtime.
    — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Instead, a local plumber and his wife bought the crumbling fantasyland in 1999.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2019
  • This only shuts out unwelcome truths and aids the state’s residency in fantasyland.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 15 May 2018
  • Fascist propaganda, whether in films, posters, or mass rallies, was the creation of a fantasyland in which the masses could get lost.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Maybe a few episodes of friends hurting friends’ feelings over football stats will tackle them out of their fantasyland and back into reality.
    — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Apparently, a bad reputation is as tough to shake in fantasyland as anywhere else.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Like the nuclear/renewable swap, this is for people living in fantasyland.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2012
  • This reality still appears to be lost on the denizens of the fantasyland that British politics has become.
    — Peter Hall, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2018
  • The carvings depict gnomes, dragons and other creatures, turning the park into a fantasyland.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Time was when readers not inclined to dabble in that particular fantasyland could write it off as her imagination, or even her conscience.
    — Roberta Alexander, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Which isn’t to suggest that Yoshiaki Nishimura’s script doesn’t rocket into fantasyland right out of the gate.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 June 2024
  • Her kit — which is filled with every shape and color of sequin imaginable (and then some), chunky gems, and smiley faces made of polymer clay — is like a portal to a quirky fantasyland.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 3 May 2021
  • The deal, at least in the Obama administration’s fantasyland, wasn’t just a nuclear deal.
    — David French, National Review, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The forthcoming Italian food fantasyland serves up pasta, wine, workshops, rides—and adult-sized tricycles.
    — Katherine Lagrave, CNT, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Its decor aims to mimic a regal fantasyland, and has many accents handpicked from around the world by the owners — like tapestries from Dubai and tile from Europe.
    — Taylor Murphy, House Beautiful, 22 July 2015
  • Vecna's inner demons Holly leads the kids into the mineshaft and starts pushing them through the exit from the fantasyland, but Vecna is close on her heels.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • With the death of Hefner, future plans for his famed fantasyland — which includes the mansion, a private zoo, a grotto, an expansive pool and tennis courts — remain unclear.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2017
  • But the notion that the United States is a libertarian fantasyland is itself a fantasy.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 22 Nov. 2019
  • For Rachel Negrete Thorson, living in a colorful fantasyland isn't childhood make-believe.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Feb. 2022
  • What seemed like a nightly trip into fantasyland starts to feel like a prison of the mind for the mentally fragile Ellie, as Sandie’s reality begins bleeding into her own.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Where to Escape Las Vegas prides itself on being one all-inclusive, escapist fantasyland; whatever happens there isn’t meant to follow you home.
    — Marley Marius, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2018
  • For Frishman, the pictures returned from Juno’s mission over Jupiter—showing a fantasyland of jets and tornadoes swirling like cream poured into the solar system’s largest coffee—are a driving influence.
    — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, 7 July 2018

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