How to Use chimerical in a Sentence

chimerical

adjective
  • Why are so many chimerical Shangri-Las fraught with conflict?
    — Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The competition in both can be fierce, and the rewards can be chimerical, to put it gently.
    — Max Winter, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • The company said the tax cut allowed it to pay bonuses of up to $1,000 to its workforce, but these turned out to be largely chimerical.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Start with the familiar and warp it into something more chimerical, and more startling.
    — Laura Rysman, ELLE, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The Tory view that May would be their greatest electoral asset was revealed to be chimerical.
    — Alex Massie, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
  • The movie’s audaciously loose and chimerical plot is its greatest strength.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 May 2020
  • Masculine chunky chains are adorned with the house’s signature tiger head, and Gucci’s chimeric tiger-snake wraps around the wrist, crowned with a yellow sapphire.
    — Sarah Royce-Greensill, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Perhaps, but these numerical ponds seem to have been more like chimerical ponds.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 May 2018
  • That would leave management enough time to assess whether the chances of challenging for a playoff spot are real or chimerical.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 4 July 2018
  • A few weeks ago the notion of a classic but modernized and fully realized Metroid game would have seemed chimerical.
    — Matt Peckham, Time, 23 June 2017
  • Claims made for the abilities or perils of AI chatbots have often turned out to be mistaken or chimerical.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • This batting benchmark has become chimerical like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
  • The T cells are engineered to make a synthetic protein called a chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR, that guides the cell to seek and destroy cancer cells.
    — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The contrast is powerful, drawing attention to the chimerical nature of her quest.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • If extensive violations of a federal law made that law go away, the rules would be chimerical.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Moreover, the pre-election fears of widespread violence by the left and intimidation by the right proved largely chimerical.
    — Noah Millman, TheWeek, 4 Nov. 2020
  • These T cells are then taken back to the lab, where they are genetically engineered to produce a chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR.
    — Gregory Allen, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2022
  • There was a serene, domestic quality to the scene that felt as enchanted as Natasha’s picnic area: an eddy of calm, however chimerical, carved out of mayhem.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
  • That playoff run has taken on almost chimerical stature among Parishioners of the Parquet eager to shed Irving and his petulance and impetuousness.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2019
  • The paintings are a series of chimerical scenes, freeform lines, and warm, balmy hues – exploring the relationship of various media in the artist's creation of unique, personal artwork.
    — Hero Stevenson, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Aug. 2015
  • Scientists may be able to model future RNA synthesis on an original, chimeric process that doesn’t require enzymes at all.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Scientists have created several chimeric animals—mosaics of cells of different species, such as the goat-sheep blend called a geep—by adding stem cells from one species to the embryo of another.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
  • During the coinfection, the two segmented influenza viruses could exchange bits of genetic code and combine to create a chimeric virus.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The film explains how chimeric cells—named after a mythical monster formed of different animal parts—are when a fetus’ cells migrate into their mother’s organs and remain a piece of them.
    — Time, 13 Jan. 2023
  • In spite of everything, the setting continues to compel me, as does the puzzle of Flores’s fiction, which frames the South Texas border region as a territory both physical and chimerical.
    — David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The treatment is a modification of chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR, T-cell therapy.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
  • This chimerical Keynes serves an ambiguous function, variously warm, needling, and obtuse.
    — Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
  • As the technology industry faces growing government scrutiny, this may not be the time for a visionary, chimerical CEO.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 27 June 2019
  • As the technology industry faces growing government scrutiny, this may not be the time for a visionary, chimerical CEO.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • As the technology industry faces growing government scrutiny, this may not be the time for a visionary, chimerical CEO.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019

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