Example sentences for: quixotic

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

  • English orthography's quixotic, chimerical vagaries, allowing such Cheshire-cat creations as ghoti (= fish, courtesy of G.B. Shaw) and Ghoughphthleightteeaux (= potatoes; see Firmage), are notorious.

  • A piece describes the quixotic quest of novelist Larry McMurtry: He is trying to turn his tiny, struggling Texas hometown of Archer City into America's used-book capital.

  • 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 .

  • 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.

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


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