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
  • Seoul is a place that veers between utopia and dystopia with alarming speed.
    Gary Shteyngart, Smithsonian, 23 May 2017
  • What good is a stroll through a winter utopia without at least some smooching?
    Gena Kaufman, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The future won’t be a utopia—but then, neither were the good old days.
    Johan Norberg, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2020
  • More coined the word utopia in the book of the same name in 1516.
    Sarah Begley, Time, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Germany is, of course, no utopia, but, for me, that was partly the point.
    Laura Moser, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2021
  • There’s no utopia without structural change.
    Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The player has to rebuild the world into a new utopia.
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
  • For this utopia to be realized, the web would need an overhaul.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The utopia promised by that monologue would seem to lack any reason for tension.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Europe might not be the utopia some see it as, but progress continues to be made.
    Grace Browne, WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • Who wouldn’t want to visit a spooky utopia where all manner of freaks are made to feel welcome?
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2024
  • As with all utopias, this one is filled with dark secrets that threaten to explode at any minute.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Visitors came from as far away as Europe to see utopia at work.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Our foray into the private utopia of home starts with the doorbell.
    Curbed Staff, Curbed, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Lucky is forced to watch as the utopia he was promised crumbles under the weight of corruption.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Who’s worse, the politicians who promise utopia or the voters who believe them?
    Jim Geraghty, National Review, 12 Sep. 2017
  • In other words, the author’s own framework doesn’t include the idea of utopia.
    Ilana Masad, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • That is the hope of the novel, the utopia of the novel—but not its reality.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Why not take men out of the equation entirely and write about a women-only utopia?
    E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • On our last game drive together, Maphakela pulled over for a quick break in a patch of earth that felt like a utopia.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2026
  • The quartet recorded the Where’s My Utopia?
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 7 May 2026
  • That’s how Alyssa May, 39, found out about the hot-pink utopia that was brought to life in her state.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The video then about-faces towards a utopia where people have toed the left-wing climate change line and saved the planet.
    Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025

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