How to Use paean in a Sentence

paean

noun
  • Guyville was a paean to a certain time in the life of a girl.
    — Sarah Nardi, Chicago Reader, 5 July 2018
  • It’s been a proud paean to the land, people, and frankly, fun.
    — Vogue, 3 June 2022
  • In the report, it had been made to sound like a paean to localism.
    — Molly Ball, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017
  • This is one of the greatest paeans to that era of filmmaking.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The movie isn’t just a paean to a pioneer spirit.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2025
  • At first glance, the collection seemed to be a paean to rejects.
    — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The Biden picture book from his trip abroad has been a paean to friendship.
    — Washington Post, 15 June 2021
  • The song is a paean to honesty and virtue in the face of dark and powerful forces.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Their endurance is at once a paean to their spirits and a well of prescient lessons.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Not every movie that stars eating and food need be a dewy-eyed paean to pleasure.
    — Scott Hocker, theweek, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Alas, all those paeans to freedom have played out better in song than in real life.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026
  • Cameron Crowe’s paean to being young and mixed up in Seattle.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 18 May 2017
  • Ever since, paeans to her have been a motif of black music and letters.
    — New York Times, 12 June 2019
  • Kelly's book is sublime, a true paean to the power of good food and even better love.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Romances are not only tales of love between partners, but paeans to self-love.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • As a result, the building is not exactly a paean to openness.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Today, Kerala sings paeans to and pines for his prosperous and just reign.
    — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Make a paean to female desire, by all means, but there’s no fixing up Emmanuelle.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Image Weaver was a flawed man, but Miller’s book is largely a paean to his ebullience.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Adam—great in the bower, but a bit of a bore—speaks in paeans, but the snake speaks boldly, sensuously.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Her stream-of-consciousness paean ends with what might be a description of her own soon-to-be rock stardom.
    — Roy Trakin, Variety, 11 June 2022
  • Just as Marcus’s paean to oneness, law, and order didn’t, don’t, and will never get it.
    — Tom Bissell, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • The series is a tribute to sleuthing—to quests—and a wide-eyed paean to magical realism.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Mr Jones’s paean of praise to Mr Webb’s perfect little song is full of gems such as this.
    — The Economist, 13 Aug. 2019
  • But that admission would have come only after a lengthy paean to the mighty Russian armed forces.
    — Boris Bondarev, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2022
  • But rest assured that Shattuck’s memoir is much more than a paean to Thoreau.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Khaled’s paean may be the high-water mark of the bidet’s profile in American pop culture — so far.
    — Michael J. Coren, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The ending, ‘Zyzzyva’, is a paean to a genus of tropical weevil.
    — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2020
  • The chapter ends up being a paean to the persistence of love, and advocacy born from loss.
    — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
  • In total, there is a fitting paean to both a past and a present marked not merely by battle but by generosity and joy.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025

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