How to Use quixotic in a Sentence

quixotic

adjective
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  • They had quixotic dreams about the future.
  • In the next moment, a truck will reach her and her quixotic protest will be over.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021
  • Yet plugging leaks has proven to be a quixotic quest for the president.
    — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
  • At first glance, this might seem like a quixotic notion at best.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2017
  • Richards' quest turned out to be starry-eyed and quixotic.
    — Bernadette Kinlaw, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2021
  • Those who valiantly try to change the system alone are on a quixotic mission.
    — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 1 May 2021
  • The main appeal, though, was clearly the hero’s quixotic soul.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Trump’s challenge to the election as a quixotic effort that failed.
    — Doyle McManus Washington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
  • In the quixotic journey to find myself, writing was the constant.
    — Caitlin Raux Gunther, Bon Appétit, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The effort may have seemed quixotic, but the regents heard her story.
    — Teresa Watanabe, latimes.com, 31 May 2018
  • The plan was part of a quixotic effort to overturn the election in Michigan to hand the state to Trump.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Hanoi's quest for the Paracels may be more quixotic than practical.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The Jets’ quixotic quest for the next Joe Namath led them to use the No.
    — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Her folks were not acquainted with the quixotic nature of showbiz.
    — Luaine Lee Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
  • The quest to give the T more money is quixotic given three major factors.
    — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The very next show opens with the quixotic adventures of the pirate Stede Bonnet.
    — Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2017
  • But that will also probably mean your goal of building a strong cousin network is quixotic from the start.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
  • And that when a crime defies logic, the search for the absolute truth about it is, at best, quixotic.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The tech press covered our campaign but mostly dismissed it as quixotic.
    — Nathan Schneider, Wired, 19 June 2021
  • For the most part, though, Tarkovsky’s crews became swept up in his quixotic passions.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • This prompted his quixotic run for the party leadership.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
  • But in a sport of countless variables, this pursuit can sometimes seem quixotic.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • It’s a biotech resurrection that seems quixotic at best.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Pearse is not known to shy away from adventures or quixotic endeavors.
    — Paola Singer, ELLE Decor, 1 Dec. 2018
  • But it’s also because of their quixotic role in this pandemic.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Co-founder Matt Smith acknowledged the whole thing seems quixotic.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Women are allowed to be funny, smart, scared, and quixotic.
    — Darcie Wilder, The Cut, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Most of those past campaigns had been quixotic, symbolic, and, in the end, futile.
    — Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The lush music makes a quixotic quest seem somehow more significant.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The politerati couldn’t help but wonder: What was the meaning of this quixotic gambit?
    — Jessica Pressler, The Cut, 15 Apr. 2018

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