Example sentences for: paeans

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

  • As a result, columnists often tend to turn to filler--mock outrage over the scandal of the day; rants on solidly uncontroversial topics (the New York Post 's Maggie Gallagher, I noticed, devoted an entire column yesterday to advancing the rather daring notion that adults should not have sex with children); and, in certain cases, paeans to the comforts of their family.

  • I did think you unfair in characterizing it as "Whig History for the PC era, full of paeans to same-sex love," and so on.

  • Despite paeans to sisterhood and philanthropy, girls join sororities to binge-drink, hook up, and pursue their Mrs. degree.

  • This is Whig History for the PC era, full of paeans to same-sex love, sweeping generalizations about emotional needs, attacks on present-day lack of civility, and you-go-girl!

  • It was while contemplating further instances of mentor-murder in this issue of the New Yorker --see the "Talk of the Town"'s paeans to the departing Tina Brown, particularly Anthony Lane's meditation upon her query, "Is Housman hot?"


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