How to Use Don Quixote in a Sentence

Don Quixote

noun

• Rocinante, the steed Don Quixote rode in search of his Dulcinea.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• Meryl is a hardheaded Candide, a sharp-eyed Don Quixote.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• The prologue gives us Don Quixote in his old-fashioned study/bedroom dreaming of knight errantry.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• Like some academics, the knight-errant Don Quixote also lived in a fantasy world.
  — James Broughel, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• Guy Montag burned libraries in Fahrenheit 451, and Don Quixote’s priest and barber burned the romances that turned the hidalgo mad.
  — Justin Beal, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2021
• From his bed, the boy tells stories to Dmitri and other young visitors, among them children from the dance academy and the orphanage, about Don Quixote.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• Their encounter leads to the creation of a Don Quixote-like duo with all the makings of an absolute commercial failure, the synopsis says.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 29 Nov. 2022
• Binet ends by slyly inviting us to imagine Don Quixote, tilting at Aztec pyramids.
  — New York Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• Such a candidate must always play Sancho Panza to someone else's Don Quixote, riding the burrow beside the questing knight.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
• Morgus' chaotic wig was supposed to symbolize the genius of Einstein, and his endless questing on behalf of humanity was a nod to Don Quixote.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• Particularly striking, both here and in Don Quixote, was the array of orchestral colors.
  — Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2022
• The iconic red-neon marquee remains, as do an array of intriguingly mediocre vintage paintings and a room-spanning brown-and-white mural of Don Quixote and his windmills.
  — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 27 May 2022
• The willingness to be a political Don Quixote, while never common in Congress, now seems vanishingly rare.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 18 May 2024
• Inspired by Don Quixote's surrealist whimsy, each act is performed by different dancers inhabiting the same characters.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 14 June 2022

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024