Example sentences for: paradoxes

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

  • But Dawkins should at least give us the chance to savor one of the great paradoxes of our era before we slip into darkness: The more that science explains our existence, the more implausible we seem.

  • 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."

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

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

  • But Rayfield gives us a more rounded portrait of Chekhov than we have ever had, less sanitized, and he deepens the flow of paradoxes that runs throughout.


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