How to Use quixotic in a Sentence

quixotic

adjective

• They had quixotic dreams about the future.
• The Jets’ quixotic quest for the next Joe Namath led them to use the No.
  — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The main appeal, though, was clearly the hero’s quixotic soul.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Richards' quest turned out to be starry-eyed and quixotic.
  — Bernadette Kinlaw, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2021
• Ben Sasse? — to take on Trump in 2020, no matter how quixotic that bid might be.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 22 June 2018
• At first glance, this might seem like a quixotic notion at best.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2017
• The very next show opens with the quixotic adventures of the pirate Stede Bonnet.
  — Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2017
• For the most part, though, Tarkovsky’s crews became swept up in his quixotic passions.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• Trump’s challenge to the election as a quixotic effort that failed.
  — Doyle McManus Washington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
• Hanoi's quest for the Paracels may be more quixotic than practical.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 29 Aug. 2019
• Yet plugging leaks has proven to be a quixotic quest for the president.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
• In the quixotic journey to find myself, writing was the constant.
  — Caitlin Raux Gunther, Bon Appétit, 23 Feb. 2022
• Those who valiantly try to change the system alone are on a quixotic mission.
  — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 1 May 2021
• The effort may have seemed quixotic, but the regents heard her story.
  — Teresa Watanabe, latimes.com, 31 May 2018
• On the one hand, the prospect of such a summit, on the eve of September 11th, seemed quixotic and unseemly.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
• 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
• What might seem like a quixotic mission has so far had a promising start.
  — Joseph Wilson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
• The last remaining move to block the election would be the quixotic effort to vote down the electors in Congress.
  — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2020
• The politerati couldn’t help but wonder: What was the meaning of this quixotic gambit?
  — Jessica Pressler, The Cut, 15 Apr. 2018
• The quest to give the T more money is quixotic given three major factors.
  — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2020
• Co-founder Matt Smith acknowledged the whole thing seems quixotic.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Which brings us to Salla's quixotic Olympic bid, one that the town hopes never has even the slightest chance of success.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 5 Feb. 2021
• In truth, the quixotic fantasy of owning a restaurant may not have been so off the mark for Uzielli.
  — Georgina Schaeffer, Town & Country, 4 Sep. 2013
• Most of those past campaigns had been quixotic, symbolic, and, in the end, futile.
  — Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov. 2022
• But that would not be the end of it for the left or for Lessig & Co. in their quixotic quest to save us from the Constitution's protections.
  — Paul Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
• The coming Phase III trials are the last step in the drug’s long, quixotic journey to prescription medicine.
  — Josh Dean, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
• The party owes an apology to Congressman Dean Phillips, who ran a quixotic campaign to sound the alarm.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 July 2024
• At 65, Farrell is the elder statesman of the bunch, yet energetic and full of oddball quixotic charm.
  — Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024

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