Example sentences for: quixote

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Most movie reviewers occupy a middle ground between Don Quixote and the Yellow Kid.


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