How to Use Don Quixote in a Sentence

Don Quixote

noun
Definition of Don Quixotenext
Synonyms for Don Quixotenext
  • Rocinante, the steed Don Quixote rode in search of his Dulcinea.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Meryl is a hardheaded Candide, a sharp-eyed Don Quixote.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The prologue gives us Don Quixote in his old-fashioned study/bedroom dreaming of knight errantry.
    — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Like some academics, the knight-errant Don Quixote also lived in a fantasy world.
    — James Broughel, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Guy Montag burned libraries in Fahrenheit 451, and Don Quixote’s priest and barber burned the romances that turned the hidalgo mad.
    — Justin Beal, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2021
  • From his bed, the boy tells stories to Dmitri and other young visitors, among them children from the dance academy and the orphanage, about Don Quixote.
    — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Their encounter leads to the creation of a Don Quixote-like duo with all the makings of an absolute commercial failure, the synopsis says.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Binet ends by slyly inviting us to imagine Don Quixote, tilting at Aztec pyramids.
    — New York Times, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Such a candidate must always play Sancho Panza to someone else's Don Quixote, riding the burrow beside the questing knight.
    — Ron Elving, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Morgus' chaotic wig was supposed to symbolize the genius of Einstein, and his endless questing on behalf of humanity was a nod to Don Quixote.
    — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Particularly striking, both here and in Don Quixote, was the array of orchestral colors.
    — Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The iconic red-neon marquee remains, as do an array of intriguingly mediocre vintage paintings and a room-spanning brown-and-white mural of Don Quixote and his windmills.
    — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 27 May 2022
  • Inspired by Don Quixote's surrealist whimsy, each act is performed by different dancers inhabiting the same characters.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 14 June 2022

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