How to Use pipe dream in a Sentence

pipe dream

noun

• His plan for starting his own business was just a pipe dream.
• The playoffs seem like a pipe dream for the 49ers right now.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2021
• The Bears have lost three in a row, and a playoff run looks like a pipe dream.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2020
• That last one is more of a pipe dream, but who knows where life may take me.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2021
• For the Palestinians, a state of their own seems like a pipe dream.
  — Ilan Goldenberg, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2021
• That achievement was decades in the making, and for most of that time seemed a pipe dream.
  — Ed Whelan, National Review, 14 July 2022
• The idea of scanning all of the world's fish had once been a pipe dream that threatened to take decades.
  — National Geographic, 21 July 2016
• In a non-Covid world, the Snyder Cut remains a pipe dream.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• Deer hunting year-round is a pipe dream in most places.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2020
• In this world, the golden mean does not exist and equipoise is a pipe dream.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
• But Viveca Greene, PhD, tells me that might be a pipe dream.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 29 Oct. 2020
• That’s a pipe dream that most viewers put away long ago.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
• Just a few months ago, reaching the glitzy checkpoint was a pipe dream.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
• The world of real-time payments is no longer a pipe dream of the near-future.
  — Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2019
• With the project looking like a pipe dream, the Corps changed everything in 2017.
  — Ben Brasch, ajc, 16 Dec. 2020
• The idea was a pipe dream in the 1980s, when less than a quarter of the country supported it.
  — Nicolas Rivero, Quartz, 29 Aug. 2022
• Still, there are signs that seizing the Senate is no longer a pipe dream.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
• In this dark and brooding place, justice is a pipe dream.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2024
• In other corners of the world, that may be only a pipe dream.
  — David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2024
• Soon, our plans for a big family seemed more like a pipe dream.
  — Claire Gibson, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
• But as each day passes, that feels more a pipe dream than a solid plan.
  — cincinnati.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• Economists on both sides of the aisle say that hopes of clawing back that cash is a pipe dream.
  — Alana Abramson, Time, 2 Mar. 2021
• Some might call it a pipe dream, but our best minds are working to bring Facebook back.
  — Sauleha Kamal, The New Yorker, 30 July 2023
• Typically priced at more than $200, it's been more of a pipe dream for me.
  — Courtney Campbell, USA TODAY, 25 July 2019
• But at the time, computational speed made the idea a pipe dream.
  — Kevin Hartnett, WIRED, 26 May 2018
• Just a couple of months ago, the idea of full-capacity shows in 2021 seemed like a pipe dream.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2021
• Then again, putting even a brief scare into the Astros on Friday night seemed like a pipe dream.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2022
• Our fantasies of a working shrink ray are merely a pipe dream?
  — Eric Spitznagel, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2019
• The idea of repeat physical visits becomes a pipe dream for many.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2024
• Mistrust and enmity, notably that between India and Pakistan, have made integration a pipe dream.
  — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024