Example sentences for: quixotic

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

  • For a great artist like Kazan to immolate himself to protect the rights of lesser artists, or more precisely in a quixotic attempt to protect those rights, would have been heroic.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Often dismissed as a poor military strategist intoxicated by quixotic ambitions, Hitler was in fact extremely adept at sizing up his opponents' weaknesses and understood acutely the "supreme importance of land power" with the "motorization of military movement."


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