In a sentence
Six example sentences with quixotic, each labelled with its topic.
His quixotic plan to replant the whole valley by hand drew laughter, then two hundred volunteers with shovels.
Environment
The quixotic goal of replacing every paper form in the county was never going to survive a single budget cycle.
Startups
Cervantes made his knight so quixotic that the windmills seemed, for a moment, to deserve the charge.
Literature
Her quixotic campaign to abolish the county council drew three hundred signatures and one bewildered newspaper editorial.
Politics
The owner's quixotic plan to win a title with five point guards lasted eleven games and one very long losing streak.
Basketball
A quixotic effort to rebuild the whole web browser from scratch in a summer produced a text editor and a blog post.
Technology
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