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Example sentences for: paragon

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Later, we shared a quiet bottle of Laphroaig with this well-mannered and impeccably spoken paragon and his beautiful young wife.
Reno's entire success at Justice rests on her image as an ethical paragon.
But mightn't a columnist offer sentiments wholly opposed to Anna Q's and seem to his/her readers the paragon of homespun good sense?
It conjures up the picture of someone boning up on his “word for the day’ just before attending a cocktail party and then awkwardly trying to steer the conversation in such a way that he can insert a word like paradigm, paragon , or parameter .
(Those who think of California as a paragon of avant-garde thought may need reminding that the school-marms there succeeded in banning the sale of the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, in the 1970s, by which time one might have thought that their moral fiber would have caught up with their professed modernity.)