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.
  • More coined the word utopia in the book of the same name in 1516.
    Sarah Begley, Time, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Not long ago, this would have looked like a free speech utopia.
    Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The future won’t be a utopia—but then, neither were the good old days.
    Johan Norberg, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Woodrow Wilson High School was not, and is not, a utopia.
    New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Bordeaux, France France is a cheese utopia and some of the best in the world come from Bordeaux.
    Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Germany is, of course, no utopia, but, for me, that was partly the point.
    Laura Moser, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The oil-rich country is something close to an arts utopia.
    David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • And despite its ideals, Fête de la Musique is no utopia.
    Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 21 June 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
  • In this gluten-free utopia (glutopia?), the sun shines brighter, the mountains rise higher, the sky burns a few shades bluer.
    Allyson Reedy, The Know, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Seoul is a place that veers between utopia and dystopia with alarming speed.
    Gary Shteyngart, Smithsonian, 23 May 2017
  • This is not to say that Western Europe, in the postwar era, was any kind of utopia.
    Anne Applebaum, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • 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
  • Europe might not be the utopia some see it as, but progress continues to be made.
    Grace Browne, WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • In other words, the author’s own framework doesn’t include the idea of utopia.
    Ilana Masad, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 yet their utopia is no fantasy — hearts break here, too.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2023
  • In other words: Snow Crash is not a utopia to create, but rather a nightmare to avoid.
    John Koetsier, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The Golden State is on fire, which means that an idea of American utopia is on fire, too.
    The Conversation, oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Australian food is a consumer’s utopia; a bit from here, a bit from there, something from the past and something from the now.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • But for now, that prospect belongs in the realm of science fiction, and even there, dystopia is far more likely than anything verging on utopia.
    Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The glowing, translucent, yellow substance forms the basis of the Megalopolis utopia envisioned by Cesar.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2024

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