pipe dream

Example Sentences

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Not long before, “talkies” had been mostly a pipe dream.

From The Wall Street Journal

Perfect anonymity online is still a pipe dream, but a good VPN gets you pretty close.

From Salon

That, of course, As usual, that was a pipe dream.

From Salon

David Goldwyn, head of Goldwyn Global Strategies and a former Obama administration official, said it may be a pipe dream to expect oil companies to risk large sums on turning around Venezuela.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I thought it was a pipe dream,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal