Example sentences for: quixote

How can you use “quixote” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You may think that your grandmother made that up, but actually it was Cervantes in Don Quixote , about 400 years ago.

  • As you explore the neighborhood, you’ll come across the historic parish church with its landmark bell tower, and the convents of La Trinidad and San Francisco (it is said that Miguel de Cervantes, creator of the famous Don Quixote, lodged at the latter).

  • Don Quixote is listed in the Appendix, but I could not find him in the dictionary, nor could I find quixotic, Queen of Sheba, Jeeves, Venus, Einstein (for `genius'), Hitler (for `demagogue, tryant'), Attila the Hun (for `barbarian'), Robinson Crusoe (for `castaway; lonely person')—but man Friday is in— Horatio Alger, Narcissus , etc.

  • Don Q is the best-known Puerto Rican brand (named after Don Quixote, a hero of the distillery’s founder), but Bacardi now calls Puerto Rico home (after leaving Cuba at the time of the revolution) and is by far the biggest producer.

  • The Spanish picaresque tales that Cervantes harvested in Don Quixote were published as autobiography.


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