Example sentences for: quixotic

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

  • The NYT views the whole quixotic episode as indicative of Weld's ulterior pursuit of some other greater political goal--either a senate or presidential bid down the road--a claim the paper makes both in its news story and in an editorial.

  • Some proper nouns and proper adjectives that have given rise to widely used expressions are normally written with a lower-case letter; examples include cardigan, boycott, sandwich, platonic love, quixotic .

  • While some would love to attribute his current courageous (albeit quixotic) stance as some kind of personal vendetta against Microsoft, the diversity of his actions in the past make it plain that his concerns lie with the anti-competitive and monopolistic practices of this or any other company, and not with the company itself (or Bill Gates).

  • However, his analysis ("") of the "controversy" surrounding Brandi Chastain's removal of her jersey after clinching the World Cup trophy is indulgent, quixotic, and utterly aggravating.

  • He describes his research expeditions to Munich and rural Austria, his quixotic searches for long lost documents pertaining to Hitler's ancestry and psychology.


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