How to Use utopian in a Sentence

utopian

adjective
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  • The plan to revitalize the city's decaying downtown proved to be overly ambitious and utopian.
  • And, on the side, Lore is looking to build a utopian city called Telosa somewhere in the US.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Let it be done away with — utopian selfism on the left, and Mammonism on the right.
    — John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • For some, cellphones and radios were part of a utopian vision of the future.
    — Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The plan for a utopian Bay Area city was shrouded in secrecy.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Stallworth frames his idea in the murky utopian language of many tech ventures.
    — Jack Denton, Curbed, 3 Mar. 2021
  • But the utopian strain of tech has never seemed so thin as when collides with a state that throws its weight around the old fashioned way.
    — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2021
  • To stand on the left is to insist that those aspirations are not utopian.
    — Time, 27 June 2023
  • Compare that with the moment of utopian calm that greets visitors to the fourth floor of the New Museum.
    — Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Yet there are progressive, even utopian, aspects to the piece.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • At the end, we are released on a note that is either utopian or dryly ironic.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 18 May 2021
  • And there were utopian predictions about how the future of art was Woolworth’s, not galleries, and that the high-end art market was a thing of the past.
    — Prudence Crowther, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The last part envisions a utopian dream, filled with houses, trees and flowers, with a large hand sowing the seeds for the future.
    — Helene Stapinski, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The utopian sheen of American suburbia is a mere lick of paint over the dark forces of fear, greed, and violence.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The concept may seem torn from the plot of some futuristic sci-fi movie, or from the pages of some decades-old utopian novel far ahead of its time.
    — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 26 June 2023
  • Their idea is to build a utopian city with new homes, orchards, a solar-energy farm, and plenty of parks and open space.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In many cases, the argument for free trade is not about utopian theories of world peace.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Musk would be far from the first wealthy businessman to build a utopian-minded company town.
    — Matt Novak, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • And this fear poses, to my mind, perhaps the largest challenge to Adam’s compelling and utopian vision of a public dream culture.
    — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
  • What was once a utopian paradise is now a near featureless ruin.
    — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But the most successful form of elite exit has not been some utopian transcendence of the global order.
    — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • But between that utopian day and this one, California’s poor will end up paying more for food.
    — Will Swaim, National Review, 9 Aug. 2021
  • This utopian view of the internet has essentially come to fruition.
    — Mark Minevich, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • To the pragmatic passenger, not having to mull over whether to pack a bulky sweater or twiddle thumbs at baggage claim may sound utopian.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
  • As for Shirley, her utopian dream is making people think change is possible.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The Nakagin capsules suggest a kind of utopian urban life style.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The series is focused on a utopian colony on the Moon that may hold the keys to preserving life on Earth, which has become increasingly perilous.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Using the tools of fantasy to envision a different or more utopian world is one thing.
    — Jason Parham, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
  • In the movie, Sun Ra attempts to settle a utopian space colony on a new planet for Black people, but must travel back in time to battle an oppressive overlord for the fate of the Black race.
    — Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Recognize that the cost of utopian thinking isn’t just financial.
    — Michaela Jeffery-Morrison, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023

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