Example sentences for: paragon

How can you use “paragon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It conjures up the picture of someone boning up on his “word for the day’ just before attending a cocktail party and then awkwardly trying to steer the conversation in such a way that he can insert a word like paradigm, paragon , or parameter .

  • Since 1979, the so-called Wright Amendment (sponsored by that paragon of legislative propriety, former Speaker Jim Wright) kept airlines from flying out of Love to anywhere but Texas' four neighboring states.

  • In both revised scenes, Washington is still a nasty place, and Reich still shines as a perennially beset paragon of decency.

  • Still, though Thatcher may have been more ambitious than the typical woman, she was a paragon of ideological fidelity compared with Clinton (or Ronald Reagan).

  • Is H. G. Rickover being held up to the user as a paragon of English usage?


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