Example sentences for: paradoxes

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

  • Fish took Milton's contradictions to be a dramatization of the theological paradoxes of his day, rather than mere literary error.

  • 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.

  • It is one of the paradoxes of modern biography that Adolf Hitler, who came frighteningly close to establishing his Thousand Year Reich, has seldom been taken seriously as a political leader.

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

  • 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.


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