How to Use utopia in a Sentence

utopia

noun
  • It's a nice place to live, but it's no Utopia.
  • The town's founders wanted to create a Christian utopia.
  • Not long ago, this would have looked like a free speech utopia.
    Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The oil-rich country is something close to an arts utopia.
    David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Seoul is a place that veers between utopia and dystopia with alarming speed.
    Gary Shteyngart, Smithsonian, 23 May 2017
  • The future won’t be a utopia—but then, neither were the good old days.
    Johan Norberg, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2020
  • What good is a stroll through a winter utopia without at least some smooching?
    Gena Kaufman, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The utopia promised by that monologue would seem to lack any reason for tension.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The pop festival is truly utopia for the young music nut.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
  • Our foray into the private utopia of home starts with the doorbell.
    Curbed Staff, Curbed, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Europe might not be the utopia some see it as, but progress continues to be made.
    Grace Browne, WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • This would lead us to a traffic utopia, where congestion and crashes are things of the past.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Sounds like some sort of feminist utopia—though some members of the press may not see it that way.
    Hillary Busis, VanityFair.com, 30 Mar. 2017
  • But the band is destined to usher in a future utopia, which is now threatened.
    Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • And yet their utopia is no fantasy — hearts break here, too.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The team makes no apologies about their decision to exclude men from this utopia.
    Katy Steinmetz, Time, 20 Apr. 2018
  • And despite its ideals, Fête de la Musique is no utopia.
    Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 21 June 2019
  • Germany is, of course, no utopia, but, for me, that was partly the point.
    Laura Moser, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2021
  • More coined the word utopia in the book of the same name in 1516.
    Sarah Begley, Time, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Who’s worse, the politicians who promise utopia or the voters who believe them?
    Jim Geraghty, National Review, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Reject utopia as a blueprint while preserving it as a dream.
    Longreads, 21 Jan. 2017
  • And now Musk gets to be its wizard, promising to turn it into a free speech utopia.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Oregon’s early settlers called the state a White utopia.
    Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The themes are about nature and winter and a post-civilization utopia.
    John Adamian, courant.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Visitors came from as far away as Europe to see utopia at work.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Brennan started the online message board as a free-speech utopia.
    Kevin Roose, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2019
  • The result is a utopia that lasts centuries, long after the deaths of all Avengers save Thor.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Woodrow Wilson High School was not, and is not, a utopia.
    New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Alas, the events in Charlottesville would prove disastrous for dreams of a white utopia.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The story is said to act as a metaphorical depiction of an unattainable utopia.
    Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, 18 Sep. 2017

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