Example sentences for: paradoxical

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

  • But the paradoxical situation is that something that is incredibly valuable abroad--Rupert Murdoch, you might remember, was willing to shell out $1 billion to acquire the Manchester United franchise--is thought to have little or no value in the United States.

  • It is one of the paradoxical effects of suits that, instead of concealing character under a bland exterior, they enhance it.

  • If Edgar Degas longed to be "celebrated and unknown," it was Corot--a painter Degas greatly admired--who achieved this paradoxical wish.

  • This paradoxical persona serves him gorgeously in Rounders , a snappy and ingratiating gambling picture in which Damon plays a character who fleeces "suckers" in poker games yet has a fundamental rectitude.

  • A few patients will experience a paradoxical reaction to benzodiazepines, and their anxiety will get worse.


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