Example sentences for: quixotic

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

  • Ginny, for example, could turn into a knockout in Book 5, when she should be 14 or so, winning--too late--the hitherto impermeable heart of Potter, then extracting just revenge by scorning him utterly, sending him off on a quixotic love-quest just when he's most needed to save the world.

  • Hatch gets treated like a joke by the analysts for his quixotic bid, yet Forbes is regarded as a believable candidate.

  • Yet he has embarked on a quixotic effort to engage Farrakhan and change his mind.

  • I wonder how his family feels about his quixotic, and ultimately selfish, presidential campaign?

  • A NYT article on Orrin Hatch's presidential run quotes the Republican senator's quixotic argument for his candidacy: "[Bush is] a mile wide and an inch deep.


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