How To Use Walter mitty In A Sentence

To my mind, Tom Hank's Forrest Gump is a Walter Mitty , for he sometimes was a Vietnamese War hero and later a table tennis diplomat between America and China.
Did this man whose entire life has been spent as an office worker in dull and colorless businesses in rural Pennsylvania just suddenly have a Walter Mitty fantasy that happened to come true?
We hope he will join us in looking for realistic proposals to solve this problem instead of inventing impractical schemes like some latter day Walter Mitty.
Fantasy sequences were nothing new when Thurber wrote "Walter Mitty," but what was new was the elaborate way he connected the fantasies to the real world (having some real-life thing transition Mitty into his fantasy, and having something in the fantasy merge back with reality) and the connections between the various fantasies (like the running gag of having a sound described as "Pocketa-pocketa-pocketa" in each fantasy, coming from a different machine each time). Archive 2007-05-01
I propose we use the term Walter Mitty to refer to these people or even shorten it to "Walts Army Rumour Service

Did this man whose entire life has been spent as an office worker in dull and colorless businesses in rural Pennsylvania just suddenly have a Walter Mitty fantasy that happened to come true?
Faster than you can say "Walter Mitty," he is whisked into the world of corporate espionage and counter spying. Cypher
Justin is, what over here UK we call a 'Walter Mitty', a blustering gobhsite, a wannabe-never-gonna-be, just full of piss and wind. Justin Hoffer: Raging Chickenhawk!
The company's spokesman has said sorry for suggesting the deceased man was a Walter Mitty fantasist.
‘He is a Walter Mitty-type figure who deceives himself into believing that he has achieved great things when all he has done is talked about them endlessly,’ said Mr Costello.
Their quiet neighbour turned out to be a Walter Mitty character, running a huge drug-smuggling business from his garage.
Their quiet neighbour turned out to be a Walter Mitty character, running a huge drug-smuggling business from his garage.