How to Use Paul Bunyan in a Sentence

Paul Bunyan

noun
  • The stats are staggering, like if Paul Bunyan played high school football.
    — Justin Williams, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • There was a restaurant about 15 miles away with a Paul Bunyan statue out in front.
    — Julia A. Morales, Seventeen, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The Paul Bunyan Trophy has been with Michigan for the last four years.
    — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Frontier tales tell of burly lumberjacks hurling axes to split trees (think Paul Bunyan).
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Cedar Crest will produce Paul Bunyan as a feature flavor for July.
    — Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The Battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe is back on Black Friday.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 27 May 2026
  • Barnes also stopped by a Paul Bunyan statue in Atlanta, Illinois.
    — Fox News, 22 June 2022
  • Below the towering stone pinnacle are a gift shop, and statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Heck, even the academic decathlon teams playing for Paul Bunyan’s Pencil.
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2023
  • A great deal of hubbub is being made over the installation of a Paul Bunyan statue in Derry.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Big Axe Brewing, a charming northern nod to Paul Bunyan, is another great spot in town.
    — Katy Spratte Joyce, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 May 2023
  • Within the pantheon of American folk heroes, no figure walks taller than Paul Bunyan.
    — Time, 23 June 2023
  • The thing was massive, the size of Paul Bunyan, if Bunyan were (a) a real person and (b) slightly better dressed.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Besides all the water, enjoy easy access to the Paul Bunyan State Trail, the state’s longest bike trail.
    — Katy Spratte Joyce, Midwest Living, 7 May 2026
  • Embrace your inner Paul Bunyan at The Lumberjack for a local brew and a round of axe-throwing.
    — Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2026
  • As always, the winner of the annual rivalry game will be awarded the Paul Bunyan Trophy.
    — Jordan Davis, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2023
  • New this year is the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show, highlighting logging skills in a thrilling spectacle.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2024
  • Sonia, for example, is a journalist in the canon of It who came to Derry to report on the Paul Bunyan statue.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Based on a local legend about a boy who battles a bear (a tale with echoes of both Hercules and Paul Bunyan), the festival is in its 45th year.
    — Bert Archer, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
  • And before that Muffler Man was done, Lee Woods had bought another one — a Paul Bunyan in Oklahoma.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • The Battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe between the Gophers and Badgers was swayed by a former Hawkeye.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 29 Nov. 2025
  • That would be Babe the Blue Ox, modeled after the sidekick to the mythical Paul Bunyan, who, legend has it, hailed from Bangor.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • The Gophers football program picked up two commitments after winning Paul Bunyan’s Axe on Saturday night.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Paul Bunyan’s Axe will be on the line at Huntington Bank Stadium, but so will be saving Fleck from a potentially awkward bowl fate.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Russell was one of the game’s great originary figures, its brightest early star, a kind of Adam and a kind of Paul Bunyan, his litany of accomplishments absurd in its length and fable-like texture.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The city is famously home to the iconic Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues, a must-see photo stop that celebrates Minnesota folklore.
    — Katy Spratte Joyce, Midwest Living, 7 May 2026
  • Disney told stories of folk heroes (Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan), princes and princesses, and even, occasionally, a mouse, all while leading the pack on ever-shifting technologies.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Besides Big Josh, there’s the Paul Bunyan in Mentone, the empty-handed Muffler Man known as Kevin on Sherman Way in Van Nuys.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • But this year’s report, published Wednesday, has the Queen City of the East – home of horror author Stephen King and the mythical birthplace of lumberjack Paul Bunyan – standing alone.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Then there’s Paul Bunyan Sugar Cookies, which, fear not, are nowhere near as big as his mythical flapjacks, and Bright-Eyed Susans, a version of a thumbprint cookie, here, flattened in the center with a chocolate-mint candy wafer.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2025

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