How to Use pie in the sky in a Sentence

pie in the sky

noun phrase

• This is not something that's pie in the sky.
  — NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
• Picking out the best Pokemon games of all time is a pie in the sky.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 30 July 2026
• The answers shouldn't be pie in the sky, vague or overly complicated.
  — Daniel Schwartz, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• Some see that price as pie in the sky and wonder if any buyers are interested in just a minority stake.
  — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 12 Nov. 2025
• While not pie in the sky, the quantum computing breakthroughs won’t be producing commercial compute for a very long time.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
• On one level this may seem like pie in the sky, yet the seeds of all of these possibilities already exist, and are firmly planted at the small-scale level of family, friendship and community at the local and hyper-local level.
  — William Hartung, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
• But, there’s always a but, getting Giannis Antetokounmpo, unfortunately late in his productive career, would be just pie in the sky generating a tad bit of interest from fans, assuming of course the guy can still line up and give us minutes.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 June 2026