How to Use quixotic in a Sentence

quixotic

adjective
  • They had quixotic dreams about the future.
  • At first glance, this might seem like a quixotic notion at best.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • Yet plugging leaks has proven to be a quixotic quest for the president.
    — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
  • Those who valiantly try to change the system alone are on a quixotic mission.
    — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 1 May 2021
  • These ideas may sound quixotic, even disruptive.
    — Scott Curran, Time, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Hanoi's quest for the Paracels may be more quixotic than practical.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Trump’s challenge to the election as a quixotic effort that failed.
    — Doyle McManus Washington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
  • But maybe, just maybe, there’s some value in tilting at your own quixotic windmill.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • For the most part, though, Tarkovsky’s crews became swept up in his quixotic passions.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • As the film reveals with clear-eyed fervor, the campaign was anything but quixotic.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
  • But in a sport of countless variables, this pursuit can sometimes seem quixotic.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • But Cruz’s quixotic effort did succeed in a couple of ways.
    — David M. Drucker, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Co-founder Matt Smith acknowledged the whole thing seems quixotic.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • In the quixotic journey to find myself, writing was the constant.
    — Caitlin Raux Gunther, Bon Appétit, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Her fans are anxiously awaiting spring to see where her quixotic quest for a mate takes her next, if anywhere.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The quest to give the T more money is quixotic given three major factors.
    — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • The Jets’ quixotic quest for the next Joe Namath led them to use the No.
    — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Now, he’s evolved into full-time daddy mode, setting off into a quixotic journey to the club in the big city.
    — Vita Dadoo, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025
  • His projects, and his motives, could appear quixotic to the fashion press—why show in Detroit?
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The quixotic windmills of La Mancha.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The very next show opens with the quixotic adventures of the pirate Stede Bonnet.
    — Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • The tree-dwelling Baron’s quixotic life is narrated by a younger brother who remains firmly on the ground.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The truth is that Young has stuck his neck out before, and sometimes his missions have wound up feeling quixotic and aimless.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Adding to the chaos is rapper Kanye West's quixotic presidential bid.
    — Nicholas Riccardi and Alan Suderman, Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020

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