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How to use utopia in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun

Utopia means a world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony. Example: “Errors in time must be kept in mind when analyzing myths and utopiae.”

Examples of utopia by meaning

nounA world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.

  • Errors in time must be kept in mind when analyzing myths and utopiae.1945, Chimera: A Literary Quarterly, page 22
  • « Some peoples of Central or South Africa have conceived downright utopiae which enable them to build up a reality more tolerable than that in which they have to live daily ».1959, Civilisations, page 426
  • As everyone knows, almost all booked passenger and freight trains are diagrammed into rosters for engines and men, and in an operating Utopia everything would work out daily according to plan.1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131

More sentences with utopia

  • What does she say about Perez's vision of a gayless utopia?2009, J. Neil C. Garcia, Philippine Gay Culture. From the entry gayless
  • In the hills they speak of the beginning as the time of the giants, another utopia.2001, George Szanto, The Condesa of M., Cormorant Books Inc., →ISBN, page 173. From the entry Garden of Eden
  • AKA a dog utopia, the ideal dogcentric world for dogs.2023, Marc Bekoff, Dogs Demystified: An A-to-Z Guide to All Things Canine, page 87. From the entry dogcentric
  • “As a utopia, it’s a very low bar,” Robinson said.2022 May 11, Alexandra Alter, quoting Kim Stanley Robinson, “A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’”, in…. From the entry mass extinction event
  • “I mean, if we avoid the mass extinction event, we avoid everything dying, great, that’s utopia, given where we are now.”2022 May 11, Alexandra Alter, quoting Kim Stanley Robinson, “A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’”, in…. From the entry mass extinction event
  • As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast.2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, archived from the original…. From the entry urban
  • In Bayard's nonreading utopia the printing press would never have been invented, let alone penicillin or the MacBook.2007 November 11, Jay McInerney, “Faking It”, in New York Times. From the entry MacBook
  • If only everyone on the Internet would do this, we could realize the dream of a spamless Internet utopia.2005, Wade Edwards, Todd Lammle, et al: CCSP Complete Study Guide: Exams 642-501, 642-511, 642-521, 642-531, 642-541. From the entry spamless
  • The term utopia comes from a Greek pun.1998, L. Kip Wheeler, Utopian Literature. From the entry comes
  • Aristophanes’s comic utopia does not lack its share of danger.1995, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of Utopian Literature. From the entry human-free
  • His utopias aren't "nowhere" -- counterfactual examples of how things might be in order to desanctify how things actually are.1991 September 22, Alan Trachtenberg, “UNIVERSITY PRESSES; Shaping America's Dreams in Chicago”, in The New York Times. From the entry desanctify
  • Buber’s demand that everyone should be constantly available is a crucial one for the utopia of the egalitarian, envyless community.1970, Schoeck, Helmut, Glenny, Michael, Envy : a theory of social behavior, page 298. From the entry envyless
  • The Risk Is ‘Juvenocracy’; Students and Teachers “In each generation a minority hears the call to find utopia”1966 September 18, Lewis S. Feuer, “Should College Students Grade Their Teachers?”, in The New York Times Magazine, page 267. From the entry juvenocracy
  • Venture's investment in Black Hawk could turn out to be a complete failure (black hole), barely surviving (living dead), or wildly successful (venture utopia).2014, J. Chris Leach, Ronald W. Melicher, Entrepreneurial Finance, page 423. From the entry living dead
  • Plato places his utopia of a just society in timeless, mythological space, whereas St Augustine locates it in the mythological future of parusia.2008, Leszek Koczanowicz, Politics of Time: Dynamics of Identity in Post-communist Poland, page 23. From the entry parusia
  • Bloch's utopia is not More's headgame.2003, Science-fiction Studies - Volume 30, Issue 2, page 301. From the entry headgame
  • He believes that the United States realized the fair's predictions of a technological and economic utopia—and the country subsequently imploded with its own success.1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry raise eyebrows
  • Feminist utopias in particular are uniquely indeterminate, because their alternative spaces rely on fantastic biological transformations of gender, resulting in monogendered and androgynous societies.1990, Jean Pfaelzer, “Response: What Happened to History?”, in Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative, 1st edition, Knoxville: University of…. From the entry monogendered
  • Ideas that are not thus rooted in social needs are condemned to impotence, and this applies to all utopias and dreams of a perfect society.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford…. From the entry impotence
  • With the right equipment, an indoor grower could create a utopia for his plants, an artificial habitat more perfect than any in nature, and his happy, happy weeds would respond.2001, Michael Pollan, “Desire: Intoxication/Plant: Marijuana”, in The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry sedulous

Meaning of utopia

  1. noun A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.

Full definition of utopia

Questions about utopia in a sentence

How do you use utopia in a sentence?
Utopia is used as a noun. For example: “Errors in time must be kept in mind when analyzing myths and utopiae.”
What is a short sentence with utopia?
“Bloch's utopia is not More's headgame.”
What does utopia mean?
Utopia means a world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.

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