How to Use vision quest in a Sentence

vision quest

noun
  • Growing up in the '70s and '80s, life was all about the vision quest.
    — Cathy Schulman, Glamour, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Sometimes the band sounds like a jazz trio on some sort of interstellar vision quest.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Just last month, for example, saw the vision quest that was the car door that people thought looked a lot like the beach.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Kayce’s vision quest at the end of season four could possibly be a sign that things are going to have to change.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Thousands have joined in on the vision quest to remind us of the power of perception.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Fourth, Hancock has spent decades in his vision quest to find the sages who brought us civilization.
    — Michael Shermer, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
  • Glenn plays a crazy person—or maybe a modern-day prophet, or maybe both—who heads off to Australia on a wild vision quest.
    — Michael Sebastian, Esquire, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The voyage, the pilgrimage, the vision quest are part of our mental circuitry.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2021
  • But when the vision quest fizzles out, many organizations are left with a colorful statement on their break room walls.
    — Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Listening to an Israel Nash album can be like embarking on a vision quest.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2021
  • When T’Challa goes on his vision quests, he is greeted by all his ancestors on an eye-popping African savanna.
    — Scott Meslow, GQ, 16 Feb. 2018
  • But even an audience as primed as Adult Swim’s didn’t quite know what to make of Xavier’s vision quests, and the show ended after two seasons.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The district office is on a vision quest while our students get inadequate services and families relocate or enroll their kids in private schools.
    — oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2021
  • And in reality, this obsession is not so different from the machine learning vision quests that Autechre have spent their career exploring.
    — Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 6 Mar. 2026
  • To such people, the Crow Sun Dance, or the ordeal of the vision quest, or Buddhist principles of nonattachment and transience might be more than metaphor.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
  • But the standout performance here is Charli xcx as Bethany, channeling her party girl persona into a character who approaches her wanderings as an introspective vision quest, searching for a deeper truth within herself.
    — Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The film’s popularity has tripled business for the mystical shop and apothecary, which offers a wide range of services including magical advice, custom spell crafting, psychic readings, healing sessions, classes, clergy services, drum circles and vision quests.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2026

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