Example sentences for: paeans

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

  • 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?"

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • Week after week, the otherwise delightful Ron Rosenbaum fills his New York Observer columns with paeans to recordings you can't hear, some of which even he hasn't heard, recordings that may not, in fact, even exist.


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