Example Sentences

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Handsome and tall, he was the charismatic dreamer, a “Royal Tenenbaum,” of a patriarch, as his son describes it, quixotically leading his family on its various capers.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023

One rider that he befriended, Eric Miller, introduced him around and they began to conceive, a little quixotically, of a movie.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2021

For nearly two decades, he and other activists had been pushing – sometimes quixotically – to end Florida’s longstanding policy of preventing anyone with a felony conviction from voting.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2020

While modern tech geeks covet the latest novelties—brighter! faster! newer!—these dogged audiophiles are quixotically focused on tracking down the right thing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 18, 2018

Some state legislators from northern Virginia’s affluent suburbs have argued that this is a form of geographic discrimination and have quixotically proposed bills to outlaw it.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times