Example sentences for: paradoxes

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

  • Such paradoxes are still fun to contemplate; they still appear in some freshman textbooks.

  • In the New York Review of Books , Michael Wood says Wills resorted to "a bundle of rather weary paradoxes: the lost but unforgettable frontier, the wilderness which is society's favorite dream."

  • In a long series of paradoxes enumerated by Bertrand Russell, Kurt Goedel, and others, we learn that a formal system that looks at itself is bound to fail.

  • And so all the paradoxes of thrift, widow's cruses, and so on become irrelevant.

  • Former paradoxes of animal behavior such as cooperation, sexuality, aggression, pacifism, and communication were being increasingly understood in terms of the natural selection of genes.


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